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Robert Fulton is born
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Revolutionary War began
Battle at Lexington and Concord, Massachussetts -
Revolutionary War ended
Treaty of Paris ended the war -
Robert Livingston appointed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York
Exact date unknown
Grand Master: Head of an order of chivalry or Freemasons -
John Fitch had the idea to make a steam powered vehicle
Exact date unknown -
John Fitch built the first full-sized vessel
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John Fitch built a second, larger vessell
Exact date unknown
July 1788 -
George Washington was elected the first president of the United States
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Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin
It was not validated until 1807 -
Robert Fulton's trip to Paris
He became famous as an inventor, he met Robert Livingston in Paris -
Livingston and Fulton are granted a 20 year monopoly on steamboat transportation on the Hudson River by the New York State Legislature
Exact date unknown -
John Fitch died
Committed suicide -
Thomas Jefferson is elected president
36 House of Representative votes -
John Deere was born
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Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston built and tested their first successful steamboat
The Clermont, however it initially failed -
The steamboat, New Orleans, was launched
Exact date unknown
Fall of 1811 -
Peter Cooper invents and demonstrates the tied-driven ferry
Exact date unknown
Demonstrated in New York Harvor -
Both Fulton and Livingston became members of the Erie Canal Commission.
Exact date unknown -
Samuel Morse went to London Royal academy of Arts
Exact date unknown -
Robert Fulton dies
Dies from pneumonia -
Samuel Morse started his full time career as a painter
Exact date unknown -
Gibbons vs. Ogden