It’s Two-fer-Tuesday!

Ask any American school child who invented the steam boat and she will probably tell you Robert Fulton.   That would be wrong.  Several working steam boats preceded the one that Fulton built.  But he deserves recognition for the first trip of the North River Steamboat (later known as the Clermont) August on 17, 1807 from ( Read more... )

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