Exemptions are important in bankruptcy. If property is âexemptâ, it means the debtor. may keep the property and does not have to turn it over to the bankruptcy trustee. All property-. even property the debtor intends to keep -must be listed on the debtorâs bankruptcy schedules.
In 1803 Robert Fulton invented the steamboat In 1736, Jonathan Hulls took out a patent in England for a Newcomen engine-powered steamboat. (but James Watt's improvement to t â¦ he steam engine made it feasible).
In Paris, Fulton met James Rumsey, (1743-1792), who sat for a portrait in West's studio, where Fulton was an apprentice. Rumsey was an inventor from Virginia who ran his own first steamboat up the Potomac River near Shepherdstown, then in Virginia in 1786.