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Descriptions for improvements of steamboats, 1816 Jan. 24.

INVENTOR NAME: Fulton, Robert

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New York University Archives
Bobst Library, 10th Floor
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
212-998-2646 http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/access.htm

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
1 v. (31 p.)
SUMMARY:

Steamboat entrepreneur and inventor.

Certified copy, dated Jan. 24, 1816, of original documents (1809 and undated) by Fulton, presumably submitted to the United States Patent Office. These detail inventions and improvements on the steamboat. Certification notice is signed by secretary of state, James Madison.

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