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Fulton

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Ful·ton  (fltn)
A city of central Missouri east-southeast of Columbia. On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his Iron Curtain speech here at Westminster College (established 1851). Population: 12,300.
Fulton, Robert 1765-1815.
American engineer and inventor who developed the first useful submarine and torpedo (1800) and produced the first practical steamboat, the Clermont (1807).
Fulton [ˈfʊltən]
n
(Biographies / Fulton, Robert (1765-1815) M, US, TECHNOLOGY: engineer) Robert. 1765-1815, US engineer: designed the first successful steamboat (1807) and steam warship (1814)
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Noun1.FultonFulton - American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
Robert Fulton


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There exist guns, according to Fulton, perfected in England by Philip Coles and Burley, in France by Furcy, and in Italy by Landi, which are furnished with a peculiar system of closing, which can fire under these conditions.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
Rose despised this taste at first, but soon got interested in Livingstone's adventures, Hobson's stirring life in India, and the brave trials and triumphs of Watt and Arkwright, Fulton, and "Palissy, the Potter.
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
The city presenting no objects of sufficient interest to detain us on our way, we resolved to proceed next day by another steamboat, the Fulton, and to join it, about noon, at a suburb called Portland, where it would be delayed some time in passing through a canal.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
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