Robert Fulton, American Engineer
Robert Fulton (1765-1815), painted by Benjamin West in 1806 in London England. Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who developed the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont), which in 1807 carried passengers on the Hudson River from New York City to Hudson and back. In 1800, he created Nautilus, the first practical submarine
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