USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Clermont, byname of North River Steamboat of Clermont, the first steamboat in public service (1807), designed by American engineer Robert Fulton and built in New York City by Charles Brown with the financial backing of Robert Livingston. Although named North River Steamboat of Clermont, it became known as the Clermont.

Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Fulton designed and operated the world’s first commercially successful steamboat. Fulton’s Clermont made its historic first run in August 1807 on the Hudson River.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Fulton arrived at New York in 1806 and began the construction of the Clermont, named after Robert Livingston’s estate on the Hudson River. The building was done on the East River in New York City. However, the Clermont was then the butt of jokes of passersby, who nicknamed it “Fulton’s Folly."

Detailed explanation-4: -The one hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the steamboat will be celebrated on August 17. The incident which has prompted this celebration was the voyage of Robert Fulton’s Clermont from New York City to Albany.