Fulton

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Robert Fulton s "Clermont." The illustrator mistakenly used the name "Claremont." (Corbis Corporation)... 

Remarkable for someone so talented in the arts, Fulton was able to use his accomplished drawing skills to express his designs. As a now noted draftsman, he invented numerous pieces of equipment such as tools to saw marble, spin flax, make rope and excavate earth. Sadly, he once lost many of his original manuscripts during a shipping accident. 

By the beginning of the nineteenth centui"y, Fulton turned his attention to his obsession with submarines and steamships. He made uo secret of his goal for submarines—he intended to build them in order to destroy all ships of war so that appropriate attention could be devoted by society to the fields of education, industry and free speech. In 1801, he managed to stay under water for four hours and twenty minutes in one of his devices, and in 1805 he demonstrated the ability to utilize a torpedo to blow up a well built ship of two hundred tons. Unfortunately for Robert, neither the French nor British government was particularly impressed with the unpredictable success, nor the importance of his innovations so he packed his bags and returned to America in December of 1806. 

Propellers for the marine environment appeared first in the eighteenth centui y. The French mathematician and founder of hydrodynamics, Daniel Bernoulli, proposed steam propulsion with screw propellers as early as 1752. However, the first application of the marine propeller was the hand-cranked screw on American inventor David Bushnell s submarine, Turtle in 1776. Also, many experimenters, such as steamboat inventor Robert Fulton, incorporated marine propellers into their designs. 

Newcomen Society oj the United States, Exton, PA Fulton, Robert (1765-1815)... 

Fulton G. Kitson Barbara S. Larsen Charles N. McEwen... 

Fulton. Vertical Boilers. Promotional literature. Fulton Boiler Works, Inc., USA. 

Colleoni-Sirghie M, Fulton BD, White PJ (2003) Carbohydr Polym 54 237... 

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