[DOC] [TLE] North River Steamboat - Wikipedia [PAR] The North River Steamboat or North River is widely regarded as the world's first 
vessel to demonstrate the viability of using steam propulsion for commercial 
water transportation. Built in 1807, the North River Steamboat operated on the 
Hudson River (at that time often known as the North River) between New York 
and Albany. ... The morning I left New York, there were not perhaps thirty persons 
in the city... [DOC] [TLE] The Baldwin Project: Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank ... [PAR] Robert Fulton and the Invention of the Steamboat from Great Inventors and Their 
Inventions by ... [25] ON August 17, 1807, a curious crowd of people in New York 
gathered at a boat landing. ... It was "Fulton's Folly," the Clermont, on her first trip 
to Albany. ... The boat did not go well, and a little later was accidentally sunk. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 9 - Illinois State Museum [PAR] FULTON left Falmouth at the end of October and H arrived in New York by way of 
... This took place on July 20, 1807, but established nothing new, being merely a 
... Fulton addressed a letter to the Governor and Magistrates of the city of New 
York, ..... the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the steam-
engine. [DOC] [TLE] Clermont - Henry Livingston, Jr. [PAR] Fulton went to Plombieres in the spring of 1802, and there made his ... Many 
attempts had been made, and many inventors were at work contemporaneously 
with him. .... The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles. 
... and the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the steam-engine. [DOC] [TLE] Robert Fulton developed the North River Steamboat, which ... [PAR] Aug 17, 2013 ... ... New York City and headed up the Hudson River for Albany today in 1807. ... In 
1797, Robert Fulton went to Paris where his fame as an inventor ... Then on 
August 17, 1807, the North River Steamboat left New York City for Albany, New 
York ... has been performed wholly by the power of the steam engine. [DOC] [TLE] GREAT EPOCHS IN AMERICAN HISTORY - USGenNet [PAR] FULTON'S SUCCESS WITH HIS STEAMBOAT (1807) I ... No sooner had that 
illustrious inventor completed his double-acting engine than he saw .... 2 The 
scene of one of Fitch's trials was the Collect Pond in New York City, long since 
filled in. ... and the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the steam-
engine. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "History of American steam navigation" - Internet Archive [PAR] In 1796 he made an experiment on a small body of water in New York City, 
known then as the .... Livingston was a man of wealth as well as an inventor. ..... 
an account of his trip to Albany and return as follows: NEW YORK, August 21st, 
1807. ... and the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the steam 
engine. [DOC] [TLE] Fulton's Folly - Life On The Homestead - The Elmira Telegram [PAR] Aug 26, 2015 ... Built in 1807 under Robert Fulton's direction, the North River Steamboat (or ... the 
Hudson) with great success between New York City and Albany, New York. ... a 
wealthy investor and politician, and Robert Fulton an inventor and .... the voyage 
has been performed wholly by the power of the steam engine. [DOC] [TLE] The Revolution Begins: Steam Engines, Railroads, and Steamboats ... [PAR] The new energy sources also enabled the development of reliable, high-speed 
.... The water had no place to go but upwards through a vertical pipe that entered 
... A key inventor in the history of the steam engine was Edward Somerset, the 
second ..... passengers and freight between Albany, New York, and New York 
City. [DOC] [TLE] The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York  Page 30 [PAR] The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), Sunday, May 2, 1909, Page 30. 
... In the winter ot

Question: In 1807 this inventor went from New York City to Albany "wholly by the power of the steam engine"
Answer: (Robert) Fulton