Robert Fulton the "Nautilus", the first practical submarine in history. Fulton is also credited with inventing some of the world's earliest naval torpedoes for use by the British Royal Navy. Fulton became interested in steam engines and the idea of steamboats in 1777 when he was around age 12 and visited state delegate William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was interested in this topic. Henry had learned about inventor James Watt and his Watt steam engine on an earlier visit to England. Robert Fulton was born on a farm in Little Britain, Pennsylvania, on November 14, 1765. He had three sisters –
Submarines in the United States Navy that was to forever change the nature of the submarine arm occurred. That revolution was . The was the first nuclear-powered submarine. "Nautilus" put to sea for the first time on 17 January 1955, transmitting the historic message, ""Under way on nuclear power."" Up until that point, submarines had been torpedo boats tied to the surface by the need to charge their batteries using diesel engines relatively often. The nuclear power plant of the "Nautilus" meant that the boat could stay underwater for literally months at a time, the only operational limit being the amount of food that the boat