Fulton, Robert

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

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

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. 

Fulton, John Farquar. A bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, fellow of the Royal Society. 2nd ed. ed. Oxford Clarendon P, 1961. xxvi, 217 p... 

RICHARD G. STRICKERT, DHANPAT RAI, and ROBERT W. FULTON Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352... 

This research was performed for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC06-76RL0 1830. We thank Robert Fulton for his efforts in the experimental measurements, Harvey Tenny for the X-ray diffraction analyses, and Frank Hara for ICP analyses. The preparation and presentation of this paper was supported through the Materials Characterization Center. 

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Robert Fulton Dye... 

The young inventor, Sachs concluded, was Robert Fulton. Roosevelt laughed easily probably he laughed at that... 

Robert Fulton constructed at age of thirteen paddle-wheels, which he applied with success to a fishing boat. In 1786 Fulton went to London to study there, and actively engaged in a project to improve canal navigation in 1793. In 1796 he made plans for a cast-iron aqueduct which was later built for crossing River Dee. Further works related to a passage boat, a despatch boat and a trader to be used on canals. 

Tyler, D.B. (1946). Fulton s steam frigate. American Neptune 6(10) 253-274. http //de.wikipedia.org/vfiki/Robert Fulton P... 

Among the engineers who were responsible for the very early water works of the yoimg United States, Latrobe appears to have been the most skilled, as evidenced by his first water supply of Philadelphia He was also involved in the construction of Chesapeake and Delaware Canals. In 1812 he became interested with Robert Fulton (1765-1815) in the introduction of steamboats on the western waters, and built the Buffalo at Pittsburgh, the forth steamer descending Ohio River. After the burning of the Capitol due to British war action, Latrobe was called to rebuild it. At his death he was engaged with works for the water supply of New Orleans LA. 

Anonymous (1924). William B. Parsons. Engineering News-Record 92(16) 643-644. P Anonymous (1932). Death of William Barclay Parsons. Civil Engineering 2(6). 401-402. Anonymous (1943). Parsons, William B. Who was who in America 1 940. Marquis Chicago. Parsons, W.B. (1900). An American engineer in China. McClure, Phillips Co. New York. Parsons, W.B. (1920). The American engineers in France. Appleton New York. P Parsons, W.B. (1922). Robert Fulton and the submarine. Columbia University Press New York. http //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Barolay Parsons P... 

He was appointed professor of natural philosophy at Columbia University in 1820, a position he held imtil 1854. He wrote then widely read biographies on Robert Fulton, among others, and his 1830 Treatise on the steam engine. His textbooks Outlines of natural philosophy, and Outlines of geology were the first works of their kind published in the USA. 

William (sic Robert) Fulton Cathcart, III, M. D. An orthomolecular physician. Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine Newsletter 1(4) (1978) 1-2, 5. 

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