So today in School I got to learn about Robert Fulton. He was an inventor and made several things better. They didn't really tell me much about what he did so Dad let me see on wikipedia a little more about what he did. He worked building boats and invented the first Submarine, for Napoleon! People say that he also was the first one to make a working torpedo. He also made sky rockets for his town celebration when he was only a little boy. Now days we call these fireworks!
It talked mostly about his steam boat though. He made the Clermont. That was the first successful steam boat. It traveled up the Hudson river from New York City to Albany. That was a trip of 150 miles in less than 30 hours which was really fast for back then. Sometimes depending on the wind and currents that distance could take weeks.
2 comments:
Sounds like he did a lot of interesting things. Do you know if any of his inventions accidentally exploded?
Do you remember seeing all the small steam engines at the fair?
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