| Show frenchman first to use steam to propel boat A deposition signed by two nota ram of lyons F france rance a letter from the th american inventor robert fulton and numerous other papers appear to prove conclusively that the inventor of the first steamboat was not the american artist fulton but ft i brench royalist tho the marqula marquis claude dorothee de joua jouie toy roy dAb dabbins bans who died years ago july 18 1832 while robert fulton was still a young painter and only eighteen the second steamboat invented by doutt roy dabbins dAbb dAb bans nna successfully mounted the current from lyons up tip the river to the ile barbe amidst the tha acclamation of the people jouffroy called after his principal family name has an avenue in paris named for him but little credit seems to have been given him for or hla his invention until a french writer jacques took up his cause in a newspaper later engine builder perler collaborated with the younger fulton in installing watts engines on steamboats one of the replicas of which probably was that which navigated the hudson river and gave robert fulton the credit for being the first firs t and foremost inventor of the steamboat fulton who much time in parts paris had written a n letter to the r rench french patent office called les lea arts et metters disclaiming his part as the first inventor of the che steamboat |
