My fearless wall by nbatone_06 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5 Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2018-03-06 14:30:46 UTC 2018-03-08 14:15:11 UTC hello@padlet.com tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239148054 2018-03-07 14:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239148054 Robert Fulton was a inventor of the Steam Boat tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239148305 2018-03-07 14:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239148305 Robert Fulton was born November 14 1765, in Lancaster County, Pa. His father worked at farming. among other jobs.and died when Robert was a small boy. tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239149865 2018-03-07 14:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239149865 In 1786 Fulton went to London to study painting with Benjamin West who had been a family friend and was by this time one of the leading American painters living in England. tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239151299 2018-03-07 14:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239151299 By the age of 10 Robert showed promise as an artist and was employed by local gunsmiths to make designs for their work. tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239152304 2018-03-07 14:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239152304 about 1793 he gave up painting as a vocation, pursuing it only for his own amusement. tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239152744 2018-03-07 14:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239152744 As early as 1794 Fulton considered using steam power to drive a boat. Seven years earlier John Fitch had successfully demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River at Philadelphia, but in the interim no one had been able to make both a mechanical and commercial success of the idea. tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239154989 2018-03-07 14:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239154989 tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239155937 2018-03-07 14:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239155937 tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239158440 For the next 10 years Fulton devoted himself to the development of underwater warfare through the invention and improvement of a submarine and explosive torpedoes. ]]> 2018-03-07 14:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239158440 tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239159153 2018-03-07 14:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239159153 In 1801 he proceeded with his submarine, the Nautilus, against various ships but was unsuccessful. By 1804 his failure to win French money for destroying British ships led him to offer to destroy French ships for the British government. tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239167366 2018-03-07 14:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239167366 tonyjames447 https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239168598 2018-03-07 14:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tonyjames447/b8mm7upxdmo5/wish/239168598