Artist, engineer, and inventor Robert Fulton launched the first steamboat trek up the Hudson River on this day in 1807.Robert Fulton's boat, the Clermont, traveled from New York City upstream to Albany in about thirty-two hours.
I've Got Steam Heat
Artist, engineer, and inventor Robert Fulton launched the first steamboat trek up the Hudson River on this day in 1807.Robert Fulton's boat, the Clermont, traveled from New York City upstream to Albany in about thirty-two hours.
Sarah A. Stevens, painted by James Bard in 1873, recalls Fulton's achievement and evokes American pride in technological progress during the industrial revolution.
Pictured: James Bard, 1815–97, Sarah A. Stevens, 1873, watercolor on paperboard, sheet: 25 x 39 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Lynne B. Litterine and Marc Kaufman in memory of Louis B. Litterine.