THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
JAMES MADISON AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
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Detailed explanation-1: -On Oct. 20, 1811, the steamboat New Orleans set off from this place on a journey of more than 1, 800 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Funded by Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston, the New Orleans represented a vision of the future. When the boat landed at its namesake city on Jan.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first steam-powered ship Pyroscaphe was a paddle steamer powered by a Newcomen steam engine; it was built in France in 1783 by Marquis Claude de Jouffroy and his colleagues as an improvement of an earlier attempt, the 1776 Palmipède.
Detailed explanation-4: -Robert Fulton established the first steam boat service.
Detailed explanation-5: -John Fitch, (born January 21, 1743, Windsor, Connecticut, U.S.-died July 2, 1798, Bardstown, Kentucky), pioneer of American steamboat transportation who produced serviceable steamboats before Robert Fulton. Fitch served in the American Revolution (1775–83) and later surveyed land along the Ohio River.