Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Robert Fulton
This website contains biographical information about Robert Fulton, including the events leading up to his design of the first successful steamboat.
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Robert Fulton
One-page profile of influential innovator, Robert Fulton, whose vision and ideas created the world's first commercially successful steamboat service.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Robert Fulton
This biography is a great resource on Robert Fulton and what he had accomplished throughout his life. Additional links to photographs of his creations are available as well.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Robert Fulton
Learn how the steamboat got its start at the hand of a curious and energetic inventor-Robert Fulton. (In Spanish)
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Fulton's Submarine
Discusses the technological and political conditions which led to Robert Fulton's invention and development of the submarine. Includes some biographical information and some graphics of early submarine sketches. (Text is the actual radio...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
Other
Forest Preserve District of Cook County (Illinois): River Steamboats
Information about the invention and development of steamboats as a mode of transportation.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 - February 24, 1815) was a U.S. engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Inventing the Riverboat
A discussion of Robert Fulton's and Henry Shreve's contribution to the evolution of the steamboat. Includes photos of early steamboats and some biographical information on Fulton. (Text is the actual radio transcript of a syndicated...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert Fulton
American engineer and inventor, primarily known for building the steamboat.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert Fulton
An American inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Fulton's Battery Catamaran
A description of Fulton's steamboat and its influence on subsequent military warships. Interesting, anecdotal and well-written. Includes some biographical information. (Text is the actual radio transcript of a syndicated radio broadcast...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wake Up, America: New Modes of Transport in 19th Century America [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines how new technology and scientific advances of the nineteenth century changed America. Includes ideas for directing students through a...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Inventors and Inventions
The industrial revolution in America spawned the inventions of many inventors, who improved technology in many different areas. See how transportation, agriculture, and communications were transformed because of these inventions.