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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

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

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

Fulton, Robert, his exclusive right to navigation, 112.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel

Fulton, Robert, as a Painter, i, 122; his Love of Art, i, 123; his Exalted Mind, i, 123; his Account of his first Steamboat Voyage to Albany, and his Predictions, i, 124.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub