TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/17/26 – FULTON’S FOLLY DAY!
Robert Fulton started thinking about powering ships with steam engines when he was a 12 year-old farmboy in Pennsylvania, so August 17, 1807 was a sweet day for him, NATIONAL FULTON’S FOLLY DAY! This was the day his North River Steamboat took its maiden voyage on the Hudson River, two weeks before beginning regular 36 […]
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