What is Steamboat?
[[File:Belle of Louisville 2.jpg|thumb|The Belle of [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], an old steamboat that was first called the ''Idlewild'' and later called the ''Avalon'']] [[File:D'AbbansSteamshipModel.jpg|thumb|[[Scale model|model]] of the first steamer, built by Jouffroy d'Albans]] [[File:Stettin 7960.jpg|thumb|The ''Stettin'' is an [[icebreaker]] which is active in the [[port]] of [[Hamburg]] today. The photo shows the ship in [[Kiel]],]] A '''steamboat''' (also called a '''steamship''' or '''steamer''') is a [[ship]] that uses a [[steam engine]] or steam [[turbine]] to move. At first, these were paddle steamboats. Some had a paddle wheel on the back. Others had two wheels on the sides. Most went down [[river]]s. From about 1836, marine [[propeller]]s, invented by [[Josef Ressel]], were used. [[Claude François Jouffroy d’Abbans]] built the first working steamship in 1783. There were many steamboats in the 19th century in the [[United States]] and other countries. However, the first steamboat was built by [[John Fitch]] in 1787. It had many [[paddle|paddles]].<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/fitch_hi.html |title=Who Made America? {{!}} Innovators {{!}} John Fitch |work=pbs.org |accessdate=November 17, 2010 }}</ref> Fitch tried to make money from the steamboat, but could not do so. He died in 1798, and did not live long enough to see [[Robert Fulton]] become the first person to build a steamboat that could make money. In 1807, Fulton built a steamboat that could travel from [[New York City]] to [[Albany, New York|Albany]] in 32 hours.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/fulton.html |title=Inventor of the Week: Archive |work=web.mit.edu |accessdate=November 17, 2010 |archive-date=March 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323032137/http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/fulton.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Steamboats became much faster later in the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/nation/jb_nati