Describes the life and work of the talented inventor and resourceful businessman, with special emphasis on his development of the steamboat.

Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts. "[A]uthor and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with...historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts. When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of...

Discusses the life and work of the inventor who developed the steamboat and made it a commercial success.

A brief biography of Robert Fulton, the inventor, artist, and engineer who is best known for his work with submarines and the steamboat.

Robert Fulton revolutionized water travel at the turn of the 19th century. In this book, readers will explore the different kinds of water travel available to Americans in the late 1700s and early 1800s, and how Fultons invention was a vast improvement. This book covers Fultons early life and work, his interest in canals and navigation, and his development of a widely successful steamboat. Readers will learn about how Fultons steamboat worked and...