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And today, I found out that the Robert Fulton article had the whole section on the Clermont -- the first steamboat -- deleted back in February, and nobody noticed. (I can't check everything on my watchlist.) Eventually somebody even modified the article based on the fact that there was no evidence presented he had built a steamboat.
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