Photo credit: Clermont, the first steam ship, designed by Robert Fulton, 1807. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Known for developing the first commercially successful steamboat with the help of business partner Robert Livingston, Robert Fulton began his life as an author and later turned his focus to engineering. He married the niece of his steamboat business partner, […]
Monthly Archives: July 2021
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- Traversing the Echoes of Time: A Journey Through the Layers of History Along Europe’s Mediterranean Coast
- The Unexpected Heroes in Historical Fiction
- Dorothea Dix: A Beacon of Hope in Civil War Nursing and Mental Health Reform
- From Idea to Bookshelf: Inside an Author’s Odyssey
- The Hardship and Hope of Virginian’s Reconstruction
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