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addle a canoe. It ran at a speed ofabout three miles an hour. Fitch built another steamboat moved by paddlesat the stern, but his third boat was a great im- The First Engines 15 provement over the other two, for it was drivenby a small propeller. From 1785 to 1788 Millerand Symington, also of… … Fig. 9. Fultons Steamboat the Clermont steamboat and operated it on the Seine withgreat success. Coming to America he built theClermont, in 1807, a small paddle-wheel packet,a picture of which is shown in Fig. 9, andlaunched her on the Hudson River. When she started on her trial trip from NewYork…
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