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brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages.
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Prominent Nantucket whaling merchant Joseph Rotch resettles to New Bedford, anticipating the city's future importance to the whaling industry.
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James Watt invents the first steam engine
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John Finch made first sucsessful trial in a steam boat
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Robert Fulton built model steamboat built that ran four times to the Quai de chaillot.
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Robert Fulton built the Clermont the first practicle steamboat
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Clermont travels up the Hudson River to Albany, First sucsessful commercial voyage
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After the War of 1812, the whaling industry enters its "Golden Age."
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For the first time, New Bedford's whaling fleet exceeds that of Nantucket.
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Stevens demonstrated the feasibility of steam locomotive on a circle experimental track constructed on his estate in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were built in 1827, covering 379 miles, powered by horses.
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Famous day for reckoning for American transportation
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The South Carolina canal and Rail Road company, whose 136 miles of track, completed to Hamburg, constituted, in 1833.
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Because of profits from whale oil and baleen, New Bedford is the wealthiest city per capita in the country.
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There were 30,000 miles of railway tracks in use in the United States.
