Robert Fulton: Timeline

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  • Robert Fulton is born

  • Revolutionary War began

    Battle at Lexington and Concord, Massachussetts

  • Revolutionary War ended

    Treaty of Paris ended the war

  • Robert Livingston appointed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York

    Exact date unknown
    Grand Master: Head of an order of chivalry or Freemasons

  • John Fitch had the idea to make a steam powered vehicle

    Exact date unknown

  • John Fitch built the first full-sized vessel

  • John Fitch built a second, larger vessell

    Exact date unknown
    July 1788

  • George Washington was elected the first president of the United States

  • Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin

    It was not validated until 1807

  • Robert Fulton's trip to Paris

    He became famous as an inventor, he met Robert Livingston in Paris

  • Livingston and Fulton are granted a 20 year monopoly on steamboat transportation on the Hudson River by the New York State Legislature

    Exact date unknown

  • John Fitch died

    Committed suicide

  • Thomas Jefferson is elected president

    36 House of Representative votes

  • John Deere was born

  • Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston built and tested their first successful steamboat

    The Clermont, however it initially failed

  • The steamboat, New Orleans, was launched

    Exact date unknown
    Fall of 1811

  • Peter Cooper invents and demonstrates the tied-driven ferry

    Exact date unknown
    Demonstrated in New York Harvor

  • Both Fulton and Livingston became members of the Erie Canal Commission.

    Exact date unknown

  • Samuel Morse went to London Royal academy of Arts

    Exact date unknown

  • Robert Fulton dies

    Dies from pneumonia

  • Samuel Morse started his full time career as a painter

    Exact date unknown

  • Gibbons vs. Ogden