Engineer and Artist: His Life and Works
By H. W. Dickinson, London, 1913
Engineer and Artist:
His Life and His Works
By: H. W. Dickinson
John Lane, London, 1913
This publication is made available on the Steam Engine Library, a collection of historical documents relating to the history of the steam engine created by the History Department at the University of Rochester.
Electronic text and html conversion performed by Jon Martin, Alex Schlesinger, Rob Wirstrom, Brandon Yarbough, Jen Jones, Ben Whitestone, December 1996
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 Ancestry, birth, and boyhood of Robert FultonCHAPTER 2 Entry into the world, Paints Miniatures, Leaves for England, Exhibits at the Royal Academy, Gives up painting
CHAPTER 3 Projects for marine propulsion, Studies the English canal system, digging machine, patent for inclined plane, writes on canal navigation
CHAPTER 4 Correspondence with Lord Stanhope, Bude Canal, Leaves for France
CHAPTER 5 Arrival in Paris, Canal patent, Submarines projects
CHAPTER 6 Second attempt to introduce the submarines, Report of a Commission thereon, Paints panoramas for a living, Constructs and operates the submarine
CHAPTER 7 Turns his attention to steam navigation, Sketch of the work of previous experimenters, Steamboat on the Seine, British negotiations to withdraw Fulton From France
CHAPTER 8 Returns to England, Orders a steamboat engine, Experiments with the torpedo against the Boulogne flotilla, Leaves for the United States
CHAPTER 9 Arrival in America, Torpedo Experiments, Launch and Trail Trip of the Steamboat, Steam Ferry Boat
CHAPTER 10 United States patents, Steamboat monopoly and litigation to which it gave rise, Steamboat enterprise in Europe and Asia
CHAPTER 11 Construction of first steam man-of-war, Illness and death, Character Hudson-Fulton Celebration
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