On August 17, 1807, Robert Fulton’s steamship, the Clermont, left from New York to Albany. Fulton had now begun the first commercial voyage of a steamboat. It moved at about five miles per hour. While that does not seem like a speedy trip, it revolutionized moving products in the US, and even later in andContinue reading “August 17 “A Tale of Two Witties””
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