Robert Fulton

"Robert Fulton" by Alice Crary Sutcliffe is a biographical story from the past that shines a light on the life of Robert Fulton, the person famous for inventing the steamboat. The story follows Fulton from when he was young to when he became a well-known creator. The point of the book is to show how Fulton never gave up and always worked very hard. The book starts with him as a young boy in Pennsylvania who is creative as he comes with a way to have a celebration even though it was not allowed. The story then looks into him growing up, his school life, and his family, explaining that he learned a lot from these things to make his work ethic stronger. His first experiments and designs showed that he like the idea of how things move in the water, which led to him creating steamboats and submarines.