On this day in 1807, Robert Fulton’s steamboat left the dock on scheduled service.
Scroll down to the bottom to see what Napoleon had to say about steamboats. Tee hee.
The world bicentennial of scheduled steam boat service
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Napoleon’s quote – perhaps apocryphal? – calls to mind the early-sixties quote – likely better documented than Napoleon’s – from the head of the IBM, to the effect that the world will never need more than six computers…