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Cynthia Owen Philip, Robert Fulton: A Biography (1985), separates the driven businessman from the mythical inventor. Kirkpatrick Sale, The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream (2001), describes Fulton’s achievement within the context of a young and expanding America.
Early biographies were written by Fulton’s close friend C.D. Colden, The Life of Robert Fulton (1817); and his great-granddaughter A.C. Sutcliffe, Robert Fulton and the “Clermont” (1909). H.W. Dickinson, Robert Fulton, Engineer and Artist (1913), deals with technical matters in an exemplary way.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Robert Fulton and the Invention of the Steamboat. | Aug 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. Naval Institute - Man of War. | Apr 02, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 20, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 10, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Inventors Hall of Fame - Robert Fulton. | Jun 30, 2022 | ||
| Added an illustration of the Clermont. | Jan 27, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Facts about Famous People - Robert Fulton Facts and Biography. | Apr 29, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 10, 2017 | ||
| Photographs added. | Jul 30, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Society of Mechanical Engineer - Biography of Robert Fulton. | Feb 05, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lemelson-MIT - Biography of Robert Fulton. | Jul 10, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Robert Fulton: The Inventor of the Steamboat. | Jul 10, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Robert Fulton. | Jul 10, 2013 | ||
| Bibliography updated. | Aug 20, 2012 | ||
| Added image of Fulton. | Dec 04, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Who Made America - Biography of Robert Fulton. | Nov 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: New York History - The Clermont. | Sep 07, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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