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onment.Then the enemies of the boat applied to the courts foran injunction restraining Fulton from navigating theHudson with his steamboat. Daniel Webster api)eared 52 IXA^EXTIONS AND DLSCOM^]RIES as Fultons attorney. He won the case and securedfor the Clermont the full rights of the river. Fulton… … The Clermont on the Hudson in canals and in the invention of machinery for spin-ning flax and twisting rope. He also made experimentsw4th sub-marine explosives in England, France, and theUnited States; but these were considered failures. Hedied February 24, 1815. The first steamboat in the West was…
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