The era of the steamboat began in America in 1787 when John Fitch (1743-1798) made the first successful trial of a forty-five-foot steamboat on the Delaware River on August 22, 1787, in the presence of members of the Constitutional Convention.
robert fulton
No steamboats
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Robert Fulton invented the first practical steamboat.
Around the 1890's
There are no perfect rhymes for the word steamboats.
The use of steamboats on major US rivers soon followed Fulton's success. In 1811 the first in a continuous line of river steamboats left the dock at Pittsburgh to steam down the Ohio River to the Mississippi and on to New Orleans
Steamboats cost a lot of money to maintain
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Steamboats are used to carry good and large products
Steamboats were faster than sail boats.
because it was time before they didn't know NORMAL steamboats but......a normal steamboat is still a steamboat