abstract:Robert Lawson Craft (born October 20, 1923) is an American conductor and writer. He is best known for his intimate working friendship with Igor Stravinsky, a relationship which resulted in a number of recordings and books.
Though the first steamboats appeared as early as 1783, Fulton showed little interest in the craft until 1802 when, at a soiree thrown by the Barlows, he met Robert Livingston, a patrician New Yorker who held a 20-year monopoly on steamboat transport in New York State.