He then entered the canal digging business, publishing "A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation".
After studying art with Benjamin West, this man dedicated himself to engineering, patenting machines for sawing marble, for spinning flax, and for twisting hemp into rope. He then entered the canal digging business, publishing "A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation". While in Paris from 1797-1806 he invented a submarine but failed to interest the French government in the designs, after which he was commissioned by Robert Livingston to build his most famous creation, which was once described as "a backwoods saw-mill mounted on a scow and set on fire."  FTP, who was this inventor whose ship Clermont was the first economically effective steamboat?
After studying art with Benjamin West, this man dedicated himself to engineering, patenting machines for sawing marble, for spinning flax, and for twisting hemp into rope.
Robert Fulton