My namesake, Robert Fulton (1765-1815) was an American artist,
engineer and inventor, known among other things for introducing the
world’s first commercially-viable passenger steamboat service on the
Hudson river between New York City and Albany, and for work on
submarines and torpedoes in both France and England during the
Napoleonic Wars.
A full biography can be found at:
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/dickinson/
We are not related (or if so only very distantly), as Robert Fulton’s
ancestors left Ayrshire for Ireland, and eventually America,
in the 17th century, whereas mine remained in Scotland
until the late 19th century.
world’s first commercially-
submarines and torpedoes in both France and England during the
Napoleonic Wars.
A full biography can be found at:
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/dickinson/
We are not related (or if so only very distantly), as Robert Fulton’s
ancestors left Ayrshire for Ireland, and eventually America,
in the 17th century, whereas mine remained in Scotland
until the late 19th century.
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