First Steamboat, Fulton's Clermont
Engraving of Robert Fulton's Clermont. Robert Fulton (1765-1815) was an American engineer and inventor who developed the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont), which in 1807 carried passengers on the Hudson River from New York City to Hudson and back. Illustration from Galloway, 1881
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