It was for a dredging device for canals.
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Robert Fulton invented the first practical steamboat
Fultons steamboat was a ship with a flat bottom, square stern and a special English steam engine.
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The steamboat.
his first job was employment was as a technical assistant at the Swiss patent office.
Thomas Edison received his first patent, U.S. Patent 90,646, on June 1, 1869. This patent was for the electric vote recorder.
He built the first practical steamboat, which was much faster than wind-powered sailing ships.
Alfred Nobel had the first patent on dynamite. He invented it.
Samuel Winslow was awarded the first patent in 1641.