ROBERT FULTON

by Ruby L. Radford ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, 1970

This alternative to the Childhood of Famous Americans fictionalization is accurate in outline and continuously informative if occasionally offside in implication, most notably when Fulton is credited with proposing his submarine so that ""people could travel to other countries and make friends, instead of fighting""--this on the basis of his off, ring it to the French and the British to counter the other's piracy (not the unidentified ""pirate ships"" of the text). But the common tactic of aggrandizing incidents is generally avoided, and the result is a balanced chronology of the mechanically adept boy who became a prosperous painter only to return to civil engineering and invention--and to his early interest, the steamboat. No style whatever (not in the illustrations either) but adequate substance.

Pub Date: July 1, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1970

Categories: NONFICTION