Robert Fulton

About the Book

Robert Fulton was a renaissance man. Starting out as a fine arts painter, he produced the world's first steamboat empire, thrusting America to the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. At the same time, he invented a means of raising boats on canals and a system of submarine warfare. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvainia, he flourished in Philadelphia, London, Paris and New York City.

About the Author

Cynthia Owen Philip is the author of Imprisoned in America: Communications from Prison 1776 to Attica, and the award winning Wilderstein and the Suckleys, A Hudson River Legacy. She was a scholar at the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio Italy, during the writing of Robert Fulton. She lives in New York City and Rhinecliff, New York.