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Wind-powered boats
prior to steam, ships were powered by hand or the wind. travel along rivers either went with the current or was slowly powered by hand- padling, With wind-powered travel, if the wind did not take you where you wanted to go, you would not get there. If the wind stopped, you were stuck where you were. -
Robert Fulton Born
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First Commercial steamboat.
Fulton's ship, the Clermont, was the first one to be used for commercial use and be a sucsess. The Clermont sailed from -
Modern Ships
Modern ships are far superior to steam ships, but if steam ships had not been invented, we would be using sails instead of having the engine that we could change to use fossil fuels or, in modern times, neuclear reactors.
