Industrial Age · North America · Technology
1807
Fulton's Steamboat Clermont
August 17, 1807
Robert Fulton's ungainly vessel wheezed up the Hudson from New York to Albany in thirty-two hours, against the current, on nothing but wood and water. Skeptics had called it Fulton's Folly. They stopped. The rivers of America were suddenly two-way streets, and the age of steam navigation had its public birth.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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