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Who was Robert Fulton?

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Who was Robert Fulton?

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Widely and wrongly credited with having invented the steamship, Fulton actually was an engineer who refined and improved the steamship design to make it practical. After the launch of his first working steamboat, which traveled on the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in August 1807, he and a partner founded a successful commercial steamboat service between the cities and a ferry service that connected Brooklyn to lower Manhattan.