For generations school children learned that Robert Fulton perfected the first steamboat in 1807 and that it changed America. Certainly, Fulton’s boat, originally called the “North River Steamboat” ...

Two hundred years ago this month, Lancaster-born entrepreneur Robert Fulton drove a steamboat up the Hudson River and transformed transportation in the United States. This weekend, Clermont State ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Cruising along at five miles per hour, Robert Fulton made his famous steamboat voyage up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in 32 hours. Agonizing by today's standards, the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. | Cruising along at five miles per hour, Robert Fulton made his famous steamboat voyage up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in 32 hours. Agonizing by today's standards, the ...

America’s River Roots celebrates Cincinnati’s steamboat era, which helped build up the Queen City. Take a look back in history.

"This is the third in a series of publications featuring letters from the collection of H.W. Lende, Jr., San Antonio, Texas."--Page [12]. "One hundred fifty copies of this booklet have been printed."- ...

Autograph letter signed "Boulton Watt & Co.," identified as being in the hand of James Watt, Jr., to Robert Fulton (using the alias Robert Francis), with scale drawings of a steamboat engine in color.

On the banks of the Hudson one day in 1807, crowds gathered to watch Robert Fulton, an artist-turned-engineer, show off his steamboat. They called it “Fulton’s Folly.” Last week in Danbury, Conn, the ...

Businesses in downtown Fulton will help celebrate the city's 200th Founders Day in the coming week. About 20 businesses in Fulton's Brick District will each display a poster featuring a different ...