Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton ( born November 14, 1765 in Little Britain, Lancaster County ( Pennsylvania), † February 24, 1815 in New York) was American engineer and built the first practical steam ships and the submarine Nautilus.

The Nautilus, designed in 1801 by Fulton and tested in 1805 in Brest, had a hand crank drive which turned a screw extruders for lateral and depth control as well as a compressed air system to supply the three -man crew with breathing air. The ship attracted the attention of Napoleon, but eventually was for military operations to be too slow.

On February 11, 1809 Robert Fulton was a modified design of the first, patented built by Frenchman Claude de Jouffroy d' Abbans in 1783 steamboat. His paddle steamer Clermont was equipped with sails. In a modified version developed by James Watt steam engine based, the ship reached a speed of 4.5 knots (8.3 km / h) and was used as a liner between New York and Albany.

1814 Fulton presented with the demo album, the first steam-powered warship. He died a year later in New York. His final resting place is the Trinity Church in New York City.

1983 has laid down a body set up by Howard Roberts marble statue of Robert Fulton in the National Statuary Hall Collection.

A descendant of Fulton was an American baseball player Cory Lidle, who died in a plane crash on 11 October 2006 killed.

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