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History Matters: Steam Ships
9/1/2007
By David A. Fryxell
Innovations and trends that shaped your ancestors' lives.

Steaming Ahead

If your immigrant ancestors arrived in the second half of the 19th century, chances are their trans-Atlantic voyages were powered by steam - a technology first practically applied to ships by Robert Fulton 200 years ago.

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