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He didn't invent the steam engine, did he?
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.
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