What was the submarine developed by US engineer Robert Fulton in 1803?
Robert Fulton economic benefits of steam navigation. But decades later, Fulton developed Fitch's concept into a wildly profitable business proposition. In 1797, Fulton went to France, where Claude de Jouffroy had made a working paddle steamer in 1783. He began experimenting with submarine torpedoes and torpedo boats. Fulton also exhibited the first panorama painting to be shown in Paris: "Vue de Paris depuis les Tuileries" (1800), painted by Pierre Prévost, Jean Mouchet, and Denis Fontaine. The street where this panorama was shown is still called "Rue des Panoramas" (Panorama Street) today. While living in France, Fulton designed the first working submarine, "Nautilus",
Robert Fulton McGee used Fulton's experiments in early submarine warfare (against wooden warships) as a major plot element in his novel "Ratcatcher" "Invasion", , the tenth novel in the "Kydd" naval warfare series by Julian Stockwin, uses Fulton and his submarine as an important plot element. Disney Springs at Walt Disney World had a restaurant named Fulton's Crab House with a building in the shape of a steamboat. The restaurant closed for renovation in early 2016, and reopened in February 2017 under the name Paddlefish. Robert Fulton Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 25, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor