﻿Smithsonian 
  Report. 
  1929. 
  — 
  Mitman 
  

  

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  Robert 
  Fulton 
  1765-1815 
  

  

  Artist 
  and 
  engineer, 
  and 
  designer 
  of 
  the 
  steamboat 
  

   CkTmont. 
  The 
  voyage 
  of 
  this 
  vessel 
  from 
  New 
  

   York 
  to 
  Albany 
  and 
  return 
  in 
  1807 
  made 
  steam 
  

   navigation 
  a 
  commercial 
  fact. 
  

  

  