Robert Fulton: A Biography

ISBN-13: 9780595262038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 404 str.

Cynthia Owen Philip

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Robert Fulton was a renaissance man. Starting out as a fine arts painter, he produced the world's first steamboat empire, thrusting America to the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. At the same time, he invented a means of raising boats on canals and a system of submarine warfare. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvainia, he flourished in Philadelphia, London, Paris and New York City.