Fulton, Robert

Cultural  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Fulton, Robert, tries to interest N. in steam, ii.

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The nation that produced Robert Fulton, Robert Goddard, Edmund Land and many others now has far fewer folk-hero tinkerers.

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Fulton, Robert, and his mother, 310; and Napoleon, 42; experiments on the Seine, 43; success with the Clermont, 45; death of, 161.

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Fulton, Robert, 328-332, 345, 371.

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Fulton, Robert, xi, 21, 196, 248.

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