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He's the one who made steam power reliable and useful by designing a functioning steam engine capable of reliably propelling a boat. Up until then steam power was a sort of "golly look we can lift things with steam power, see my impractical and expensive hobbyist device that does so?"
Rewrite history to suit yourself if it makes you a happier person.
It's actual existing history. Plenty of Englishmen were playing around with steam power in various forms, but it was Robert Fulton who first built a working steam engine that was reliable enough to rely on as an engine for a boat. It was a design that was adapted to every manner of purpose afterwards. Fulton turned steam power from an experimental plaything for rich dudes into something that could be used to improve everybody's standard of living. You fag.
Here are the names of some of the first inventors of the steam engine and those who improved designs. Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt, Richard Trevithick, John Smeaton. All British, it seems like you americans still can't go over the fact that everything that made you great came from the British. You're proving the ignorant american stereotype right again
Except it was already used in boats in Britain, locomotives too. And he used James Watts engine design. Funny in a thread about what America gave to the world the one thing you pick is this. Out of all the things you could have picked. Lol
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