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Denis Papin, a French inventor, appears to have built the first steam powered boat in 1690.

John Fitch built and operated the first commercial steamboat in 1788, on the Delaware River in the U.S., but it was a commercial failure.

In 1807 Robert Fulton's Clermont was the first commercially successful steamboat, running a regular passenger route between New York City and Albany, New York.

Click the link below for a good Wikipedia article on steamboats.

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