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Fulton Went Full Steam Ahead Focus On Goals: Inventor's doggedness, steamboats revolutionized transportation.(A)
Byline: SEAN HIGGINS
Robert Fulton was about to change history.
At 1 p.m. on Aug. 17, 1807, Fulton gave a signal to fire up the North River's engine. The steam-powered boat slowly moved into the Hudson River. Its maiden voyage from New York City to Albany, N.Y., was under way.
The engine made a terrible racket. Plumes of dark smoke belched from its smokestacks. Anyone near the huge paddles propelling the boat forward was drenched in the river's churning water.
To the crowd of curious onlookers by the riverside, it was miraculous: a boat traveling under its own power, with no need of wind or current.
Then, abruptly, the miracle seemed to end. After moving a short distance, the engine stopped.
"I could hear (it) distinctly repeated. "I told you it would be so -- it is a foolish scheme,' " Fulton recalled, according to Kirkpatrick Sale's "The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream."
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