Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor whose 1807 demonstration of a steam engine successfully propelling a vessel is traditionally regarded as the start of the marine engineering profession, though Archimedes is credited as its first practitioner in antiquity and the broader discipline traces to the early Industrial Revolution. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Fulton's 1807 demonstration of steam propulsion is traditionally regarded as the start of the marine engineering profession.
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Submarine, Inventions Built the human-powered Nautilus submarine for France in 1800, a notable early design within a submarine lineage that predates him by centuries.
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In 1807, Robert Fulton successfully used a steam engine to propel a vessel through the water.
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