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Sutcliffe, Andrea J. (1)
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"In the summer of 1790, the world's first commercial steamboat carried passengers between Philadelphia and Trenton. Its inventor was not Robert Fulton--he wouldn't launch his steamboat on the Hudson for another seventeen years--but a silversmith from Connecticut named John Fitch. Three years earlier, Fitch built the first American steam engine compact and powerful enough to propel a boat, which he mounted on an odd-looking oar-propelled vessel. Among the early witnesses to his ef...
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