He worked as a landscape painter in Philadelphia before going to London in 1786 to study under Benjamin West.
He worked as a landscape painter in Philadelphia before going to London in 1786 to study under Benjamin West. In 1794, he got a British patent for a double-inclined plane that would make locks obsolete, and he invented a mill for polishing marble. F  TP, name this American inventor, who worked in Paris on a submarine torpedo boat before returning to New York, where, in 1807, he launched the Clermont, the first successful steamboat.
He worked as a landscape painter in Philadelphia before going to London in 1786 to study under Benjamin West.
Robert Fulton