Robert Fulton
American engineer and inventor (1765-1815) · United States · Scientists · Died at 49
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Something wrong?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.
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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.
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