What was the name of Robert Fulton's first successful steamboat?

What was the name of Robert Fulton’s first successful steamboat? It was the Clermont.

Built in 1807 by Robert Fulton and his business partner Robert R. Livingston, the vessel was originally called the North River Steamboat. It became widely known as the Clermont, after Livingston’s estate on the Hudson River, and that is the name most commonly used in historical accounts and quiz questions.

The boat’s success came from its reliable regular service rather than from being the first steamboat ever built. Earlier inventors, including John Fitch and William Symington, had experimented with steam-powered boats. Fulton’s design proved commercially practical, carrying passengers between New York City and Albany on the Hudson River.

On its first major voyage in 1807, the Clermont covered roughly 150 miles upstream in about 32 hours. Its success helped make steam navigation a viable business and transformed travel and trade on American rivers. The vessel is sometimes confused with later steamboats named Washington, Enterprise, or Savannah, but those were separate craft and did not represent Fulton’s first commercially successful design.