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Robert Fulton
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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.
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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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