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[SPEAKER_00]: On this day, August 17, 1807, Robert Fulton's steamboat began its first successful trip up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the boat, later known as a Kermont, proved that steam power travel could work on American rivers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The trip helped change transportation, because boats were no longer completely dependent on wind, current, or human power.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a major step toward faster river commerce and the age of steam travel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also on this day, August 17, 1908, the first animated cartoon, shown in theaters, Fantas Maguri, was released in Paris.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also on this day, August 17, 1978.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 3 Americans completed the first successful transatlantic balloon crossing, landing in France after crossing the ocean in the double eagle tube.