Excerpt from Robert Fulton Engineer and Artist, His Life and WorksMuch of the material that has been made use of has been gleaned at first hand, and has not before seen the light. I am indebted to the Right Hon. The Earl Stanhope for copies of letters which passed between the 3rd Earl and Fulton, these letters are preserved among family documents at Chevening, Kent. George Tangye, Esq., of Birmingham, has given me every facility for copying the Fulton correspondence and drawings pre served among the Boulton Watt mss. In his possession.1 Search at the Public Record Office has disclosed not a few interesting facts. Mr. Lane himself has drawn my atten tion to many sources of information.Inquiries were prosecuted in France, and access to the original documents in the National Archives in Paris was obtained, with valuable results.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.