Fulton

Ful·ton

 (fo͝ol′tən), Robert 1765-1815.

American engineer and inventor who developed an experimental submarine (1800) and produced the first commercially successful steamboat, the North River, popularly known as the Clermont (1807).

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Fulton

(ˈfʊltən)

n

(Biography) Robert. 1765–1815, US engineer: designed the first successful steamboat (1807) and steam warship (1814)

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Ful•ton

(ˈfʊl tn)

n.

Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.

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Fulton - American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815) Robert Fulton

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