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The story of Robert Fulton is one of the most satisfying biographies that could possibly be written for children. Even as a boy Robert was busy inventing and experimenting and he was interested in finding some means of moving a boat through the water without sails or oars. Fulton was the inventor of the first successful "diving boat" which fired a torpedo. He looked upon the submarine as a "certain mode for destroying military navies and therefore establishing a perfect liberty of the seas."
—from the dust jacket
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