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Also Known As Mississippi steamboat

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steamers
The interior of the J.M. White, a Mississippi steamboat.
paddle-wheel steamboat
steamboat
Fulton, Robert: Clermont
John Fitch's steamboat
John Fitch's steamboat
steamboat
Follow the Delta Queen down the Mississippi River and learn how steam power advanced naval architecture
Discover the growth of farming and shipping in the Mississippi Valley
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Samuel Morey
American inventor
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton
American inventor
Henry Miller Shreve
American river captain and engineer
William Symington
British engineer
Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor

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