Robert Fulton: A Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0595262031 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 402 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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serialhoarder said Really informative and enjoyable. The drive, mechanical creativity. Really informative and enjoyable. The drive, mechanical creativity and "interesting" private life of this national icon is captured in high detail with a flowing writing style.. Phineas R. Fiske said The essential, if flawed, Fulton biography. In the 100 years after Robert Fulton's death in 1815, biographers produced several accounts of his life. All were largely admiring of his far-reaching achievements, mechanical and intellectual, one to the point of obsequiousness (Thurston, 1878). ( See [] for two of them, Thurston and Dickinson, 191The essential, if flawed, Fulton biography In the 100 years after Robert Fulton's death in 1815, biographers produced several accounts of his life. All were largely admiring of his far-reaching achievements, mechanical and intellectual, one to the point of obsequiousness (Thurston, 1878). ( See [] for two of them, Thurston and Dickinson, 1913.) Then, after a gap of 60 years, Cynthia Philip provided a different picture of Fulton in "Robert Fulton: A Biography" (1985), which dealt in far greater depth and detail with his personal and business life -- and that paints a picture of a promoter who engages in double-dealing, industrial blackmail and even. .) Then, after a gap of 60 years, Cynthia Philip provided a different picture of Fulton in "Robert Fulton: A Biography" (1985), which dealt in far greater depth and detail with his personal and business life -- and that paints a picture of a promoter who engages in double-dealing, industrial blackmail and even
She lives in New York City and Rhinecliff, New York. 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
Starting out as a fine arts painter, he produced the world's first steamboat empire, thrusting America to the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvainia, he flourished in Philadelphia, London, Paris and New York City.. Robert Fulton was a renaissance man. At the same time, he invented a means of raising boats on canals and a system of submarine warfare
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. Cynthia Owen Philip is the author of Imprisoned in America: Communications from Prison 1776 to Attica, and the award winning Wilderstein and the Suckleys,