“ He died at New York on the 24th of February 1815. Among Fulton’s inventions were machines for spinning flax, for making ropes, and for sawing and polishing marble.
See C. D. Colden, Life of Robert Fulton (New York, 1817) ; Robert H. Thurston, History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine (New York, 1878) ; George H. Preble, Chronological History of Steam Navigation (Philadelphia, 1883) ; and Mrs A. C. Sutcliffe, Robert Fulton and the Clermont (New York, 1909) . ”

“ His parents were Irish, and so poor that they could afford him only a very scanty education. At an early age he was bound apprentice to a jeweller in Philadelphia, but subsequently adopted portrait and landscape painting as his profession. ”