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Creating the world\u2019s first vessels of powered transportation was no joke. Several competitive inventors put everything on the line to be the first to build profitable steamboats. For most of them, the pursuit ended in failure. It was the most unlikely one \u2013 an American painter \u2013 who got the job done, and in the process, changed the course of world history.In this episode we\u2019ll cover Denis Papin\u2019s destroyed steamboat, the Marque de Jouffroy d'Abbans and his Pyroscaphe, William Symington and his Charlotte Dundas, the patent war between John Fitch and James Rumsey, and the life and times of Robert Fulton.

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