Robert Fulton’s Demologos, the world’s first steam warshipRobert Fulton, an American e
Robert Fulton’s Demologos, the world’s first steam warship Robert Fulton, an American engineer and inventor best known for bringing steamboats to commercial success, also built the world’s first steam-powered warship. Although Demologos, or Fulton the First, heralded the conversion from sail to steam in naval warfare, she never saw battle and met a tragic end in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. For more about Demologos, and Fulton’s earlier experiments with submarines and explosives during the Napoleonic Wars, see “Robert Fulton & the First Steam Warship.” -- source link
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