Steamboats incredible history
By : Hannah Kuntz
History And effects in North Dakota
- History
Disadvantages and advantages of the steamboat
Advantages:
- The steamboats cut travel time in half,
- go up and down stream,
- people did not have to walk miles to get to a destination,
- increased the trading system,only went 5 miles an hour at first but it was still a wondrous thing to be accomplish,
Disadvantages:
- The steamboat at this time where made out of wood because of this the wood soaked up the water and usually sank the boat,
- the steamboat was not the best for the environment cause of the big uses of coal,
- the steam engine would build up to much pressure causing it to explode the boat,
- because of the explotions many people died
About the inventor
Even though John Fitch had the idea of the steamboat Robert Fulton made the first working steamboat.This steamboat was known as the clermont ,Fulton also made the first submarine giving the people the advantage to see a new world of animals and plants
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Robert Fulton Invents the Steamboat
The impact on North Dakota
The steamboat had North Dakota excelling in many ways for examples there was trading, Transportation and population,because of this population boom the economy had to expand in homing and land