Robert Fulton

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with the system of inland water transportation based on a small canals extending throughout the countryside. He thought of things such as aqueducts for valley crossings, boats for specialized cargo, and bridge designs featuring bowstring beams to transmit only vertical loads to the piers. Although some of his bridge designs were used to build bridges in the British isles, his ideas for building canals were not accepted.
Then in 1801 Fulton meet a man by the name of Robert R. Livingston. The two men decided to share the expense of building a steamboat in Paris using Fulton�s idea. It was a side paddlewheel boat, sixty six foot long boat, with an eight horsepower engine. In London, Fulton advanced his ideas and mad a submersible and low lying craft which the British would use to carry explosives in an attack, one which was used in attacks to France. Soon Fulton came up with his Steamboat. His steamboat produced a faster speed and had more power. Soon he was making ...

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