Exemptions are important in bankruptcy. If property is âexemptâ, it means the debtor. may keep the property and does not have to turn it over to the bankruptcy trustee. All property-. even property the debtor intends to keep -must be listed on the debtorâs bankruptcy schedules.
In 1803 Robert Fulton invented the steamboat In 1736, Jonathan Hulls took out a patent in England for a Newcomen engine-powered steamboat. (but James Watt's improvement to t â¦ he steam engine made it feasible).
Because they wereso expensive, his steamboats wereunsuccessfu l. The first successfu l steamboatwas the Clermont, which was built byAmerican inventor Robert Fulton in 1807.The Clermont was the combinedeffort of Fulton and Robert Livingston.Fulton was born in Lancaster County,Pennsylvania. By the age of 17, he wasworking as a painter in Philadelphia.