Fulton
[ ful′tən ]
American engineer and inventor who developed the first useful submarine and torpedo (1800) and produced the first practical steamboat (1807).
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Cultural definitions for fulton, robert
Fulton, Robert
An American inventor of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He launched the first successful steamboat, the Clermont, in 1807, on the Hudson River in New York.
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