# Robert Fulton

> He turned the steamboat from novelty into commerce — the 1807 run up the Hudson, New York to Albany and back in 62 hours, rewrote how rivers worked in America.

*American engineer and inventor (1765–1815)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1765-11-14
- **Died:** 1815-02-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Fulton caught the steam bug at twelve, visiting a Pennsylvania delegate who'd seen Watt's engine in England and couldn't stop talking about it. By 1800 he was in France building Nautilus for Napoleon — the first practical submarine — and sketching out naval torpedoes for the British Navy. But the legacy locked in 1807: the North River Steamboat carried passengers 300 nautical miles on the Hudson, proved the economics worked, and turned every major American river into a different kind of artery. He died in 1815, eight years after the trip that changed the map.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Painting, #Science, #United States, #Americas, #Early Modern Era

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