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Industrial Revolution:

Why did Robert Fulton build the first steamboat and establish his own steamboat company?

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They were trying to keep the technology of steam power for themselves. After almost two years of working, he was finally permitted to bring a single steam engine to the United States. Fulton and Livingston used Fulton's steam engine to build the North River Steamboat (sometimes called the Clermont).

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