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jan 1, 1807 - Invention of the steamboat (change)

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Robert Fulton sailed the first commercially viable steamboat called the Clermont from New York to Albany. It drastically changed society because it enabled travel upstream and led to the creation of new towns.

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jan 1, 1807
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~ 218 years ago