Robert Fulton
by Alice Crary Sutcliffe
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About this eBook
- Author
- Sutcliffe, Alice Crary
- Credits
- Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- VM: Naval science: Naval architecture, Shipbuilding, Marine engineering
- Subject
- Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57742
- Release Date
- August 22, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — ROBERT FULTON
- 5.CHAPTER I An Old-time Fourth of July
- 6.CHAPTER II Robert Fulton’s Boyhood
- 7.CHAPTER III Painting Portraits and Miniatures
- 8.CHAPTER IV The Gift of a Farm
- 9.CHAPTER V Studying Art in England
- 10.CHAPTER VI From Art to Invention
- 11.CHAPTER VII Achievements in Paris
- 12.CHAPTER VIII Building the First Submarine
- 13.CHAPTER IX Building the First Steamboat
- 14.CHAPTER X In Holland and England
- 15.CHAPTER XI Experiments with a Submarine
- 16.CHAPTER XII Some Early Steamboats
- 17.CHAPTER XIII Building the Clermont
- 18.CHAPTER XIV First Voyage of the Clermont
- 19.CHAPTER XV Steamboats and Submarines
- 20.CHAPTER XVI Ferry-boats and River-boats
- 21.CHAPTER XVII Fulton’s Home and Fulton’s Honors
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