17 août 1807 - The Clermont's first successful voyage

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In 1807, the first successful voyage of the Clermont, a steamboat developed by Robert Fulton, marked the beginning of the age of mechanized, steam-powered travel. Soon after, commercially operated steamboat lines made round-trip shipping on the nation's great rivers both faster and cheaper. This type of progress was extremely important to the development of not only an industrial economy but of a national one, too. The development of the steamboat contributed to the formation of an efficient network of interconnecting roads and canals for moving people, raw materials, and manufactured goods.

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