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Innovation, Steam Cars to Clipper ships, (refer to the May Day post 5/1) to World Circumnavigation and Evolution to the design of Sailboats from long ago to now, Engineering, Math and History.

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday 5/6 Dare The Wind, Flying Cloud and the Clipper ship who set the world record with a woman Navigator in the 1860's AMERICA”S HISTORY, Written in Stories of Adventurers and Entrepreneurs READ Flying Cloud, Written by David W. Shaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Horn LEARN PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY also ran some of the earliest steamboats on the  Sacramento  and  San Joaquin Rivers , between  San Francisco ,  Sacramento , and  Stockton .  Domingo Marcucci  who came from Philadelphia in the Pacific Mail steamship  OREGON  with a knocked-down steamboat in its hold, started a shipyard in San Francisco on September 18, 1849. It was located on the beach at  Happy Valley , at the foot of Folsom Street, east of Beale Street. Marcucci's company assembled the  CAPTAIN SUTTER  in six weeks. Built for the  ASPINWALL STEAM TRANSPORTATION