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eClyde and Forth Canal in Scotland. The trial wassuccessful, but steam towing was abandoned for fearof injuring the banks of the canal. Symmington hadbuilt a small steamboat that traveled five miles an hourin 1788. To Robert Fulton, an American, belongs the credit THE STEAM EXGIXE 49 for placing… … RoBERT Fulton two he went to England to study art. There he metJames Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, and soonhe began to give attention to mechanics. In 1793 hestarted to work on the idea of propelhng boats by steam. 50 INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES He made an unsuccessful experiment with a…
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