Who invented the steamboat and what year was it built at?

New York to build a steam-powered boat. Robert Fulton returned to New York in. 1806 and began building a steamboat on the. East River. One year later on 17 August. 1807, Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, made its first voyage on the Hudson River traveling 40 miles from New York to Albany in a record eight hours. read more

Built in 1861, this steamboat is running second to the Norwegian Skibladner as the oldest steamship in operation and sails the lake of Julsø near Silkeborg. The 1912 steamer TSS Earnslaw still makes regular sight-seeing trips across Lake Wakatipu, an alpine lake near Queenstown, New Zealand. Swiss lakes are home of a number of large steamships. read more

In 1803 Robert Fulton invented the steamboat In 1736, Jonathan Hulls took out a patent in England for a Newcomen engine-powered steamboat. (but James Watt's improvement to the steam engine made it feasible). read more

Over the next four years, he built prototypes in Europe. He returned to New York in 1806. On August 17, 1807, the Clermont, Robert Fulton's first American steamboat, left New York for Albany and served as the inauguration of the first commercial steamboat service in the world. read more