Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Robert FULTON
Robert Fulton. Who was born in Little Britain township (now Fulton), Lancaster Co., PA, in 1765 and died in New York on Feb. 24, 1815. This distinguished mechanician and original inventor was a genuine product of the American soil. The genius, indeed of the men whom America produced in various departments of science in that century, the Franklins, the Rittenhouses, the Kinnersleys, the Whitneys, should be more highly estimated than the parallel attainments of our own day. At present thousands of instructors and thousands of new influences are paving the way to fresh inventions. At fourteen he contrived a paddlewheel worked by a crank for his friends for their flat bottomed fishing boat. He has got the nickname of "Quicksilver Bob" among the workmen at the smithery where the government arms were made in those days of the Revolution, in consequence of his ready calculations of balls and distances, and his consumption of that article in his private experiments. At age seventeen, he went west to Philadelphia, and became a successful painter which at twenty-one enabled him to establish his mother on a farm of eighty four acres, in Washington County, PA, the consideration for which expressed in the deed is eighty pounds "lawful money paid by Robert Fulton, miniature painter, of the city of Philadelphia and State aforesaid;" He also made a name for himself as an artist in Europe. He is best known as the inventor of the steam engine.
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