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Also Known As Mississippi steamboat

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Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton
American inventor
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Henry Miller Shreve
American river captain and engineer
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William Symington
British engineer
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Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
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Samuel Morey
American inventor