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Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton made many contributions to the American economy. Fulton was the American inventor who brought steamboating from its mere experimental stage to its complete and successful stage.
Fulton was born on Nov. 14, 1765 in Lancaster County, P.A. He was the son of Irish immigrants. He and his family moved to America the loss of an unproductive farm which they had lost by mortgage foreclosure in 1771, and ....
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.... vertical loads to the piers. Although some of his bridge designs were used to build bridges in the British isles, his ideas for building canals were not accepted.
Then in 1801 Fulton meet a man by the name of Robert R. Livingston. The two men decided to share the expense of building a steamboat in Paris using Fultons idea. It was a side paddlewheel boat, sixty six foot long boat, with an eight horsepower engine. In London, Fulton advanced his ideas and mad a submersible and low ....
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