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The first successful attempt to propel ships by steam was made by the Englishman William Symington on the Dalstwinton Lake in 1788. But no magnanimous patron could be found to finance this wonderful inven?tion. The experiments of the two Americans, Evans and Fitsch, met with the same fate. Another American, Robert Fulton, exhibited his invention on the Seine in presence of Napoleon in 1803, but he also was doomed to disappointment. In 1807 he repeated the trial on the Hudson River between New-York and Albany. Financial support was all that was wanting to complete the success of all those inventions.
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Hajnal, H. (1920). Steam Navigation on the Danube Till 1856. In: The Danube. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-2736-1_9
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