The date steamboats were invented?

Question

robert fulton created steam boats when was the date they were invented?

Answer 1

Most people in the U.S. learned that Robert Fulton invented the steamboat.

the date was August 7, 1807. Imagine how it must have been-paddlewheels noisily creaking and splashing, crude steam engine shaking the deck, black sooty smoke belching from the chimney with sparks falling all around, people on board chattering with excitement as the vessel slowly moved up the Hudson River against the current and without a sail. Fulton's steamboat went from New York to Albany a 150-mile trip taking 32 hours at an average speed of about 5 miles-per-hour.

She was called the CLERMONT. Her first historic journey was in 1807, Fulton advertised his boat to the public as THE NORTH RIVER STEAMBOAT. On September 4,1807, the vessel made her first voyage with commercial paying passengers up the NORTH RIVER.

Answer 2

Robert Fulton commercialized steamboats, and designed a steamboat warship he did not invent them per se.  French inventor Denis Papin constructed a ship powered by a steam engine that was linked mechanically to paddles in 1704.  He was staying in Kassel, Germany at the time.  Whether you credit him with inventing the first is a matter of semantics but I choose to.