“My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours, and down in thirty. I had a light breeze against me the whole way, both going and coming, and the voyage has been performed wholly by, the power of the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward and parted with them as if they had been at anchor. The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved.”
![“As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among…” quote by Robert Fulton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/570/robert-fulton-57049_alphabet_as-the-component-parts-of-all-new-machin_1680664.jpg)
![“I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.” quote by Kirsten Gillibrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/453/kirsten-gillibrand-3719_advantage_i-had-an-amazing-advantage-a-grandmother_623939.jpg)
