Short answers, pulled from the story.
Robert Fulton's first commercially successful steamboat was later known as the Clermont. Built with business partner Robert R. Livingston, it began carrying passengers between New York City and Albany on the Hudson River in 1807, covering 150 nautical miles in 32 hours.
Robert Fulton designed the first working muscle-powered submarine, tested in Paris around 1800. The vessel operated underwater for 17 minutes in 25 feet of water. The Perrier shipyard in Rouen built the final version, which sailed first in July 1800 on the Seine River.
Robert Fulton was born on the 14th of November 1765, on a farm in Little Britain, Pennsylvania.
Commissioned by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, Fulton developed the world's first modern naval torpedoes, devices equivalent to what we now call mines, for use by the Royal Navy. They were tested during the 1804 Raid on Boulogne but met with limited success.
Robert Fulton died on the 24th of February 1815, in New York City from tuberculosis, then called consumption. He contracted pneumonia after falling into icy water while rescuing his friend Thomas Addis Emmet, who had fallen through the frozen Hudson River. He was 49 years old.
Fulton's final design was a floating battery, the first steam-driven warship built for the United States Navy, intended for the War of 1812. The vessel was not completed until after his death in 1815 and was named in his honor.