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Fulton

[ ful′tən ]
Robert 1765-1815

American engineer and inventor who developed the first useful submarine and torpedo (1800) and produced the first practical steamboat (1807).

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Culture 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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