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ROBERT FULTON'S VOYAGE, UPDATED.(Business)
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GREEN ISLAND -- Students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will try to re-create Robert Fulton's famous voyage up the Hudson River next week.
But the students will be using hydrogen power instead of the steam power that Fulton used when he piloted the Clermont from New York City to Albany 200 years ago.
The New Clermont, as it is being called, will launch from Pier 84 in Manhattan on Monday. Using two hydrogen-powered fuel cells on loan from Plug Power Inc. in Latham, the students hope to make it to Troy by Sept. 25 for Troy Night Out.
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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I HAVE AN IDEA... IDEA...Man of many talents: Lord Kelvin, who died 100 years ago today, was a celebrity of his age.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...the modern world, William Thomson towered over his peers like acolossus. Thomson, later 1st Baron Kelvin, who died 100 years...communication but Thomson madeit work. By 1897...Glasgow was immense.' William Thomson was born in...
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Abbey ever after; Genius: The bridge over the Menai Straits (above) was designed and built by Thomas Telford (left) who was buried in Westminster Abbey as was Robert Stephenson (right).
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...t the only other engineer buried in the Abbey. William Horneck (c1685-1746) was a military engineer...south transeptwith his father Dr Anthony Horneck. William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), physicist,mathematician...
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Now and then
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...Wilson, author, 69. Anniversaries Births: 1763 George Morland, artist; 1796, Tsar Nicholas I; 1824 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist and mathematician; 1827 Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule; 1854 Sir Robert Borden...
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