Definition of Fulton

1. Noun. American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815).

Exact synonyms: Robert Fulton
Generic synonyms: Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor

Definition of Fulton

1. Proper noun. (surname habitational from=Old English) ¹

2. Proper noun. Any of several towns in the United States, named for persons bearing this surname. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulton

Fula
Fulah
Fulani
Fulbright
Fulcher
Fulda
Fulgoridae
Fulica
Fulica americana
Fulica atra
Full Blood Count
Fuller
Fulmarus
Fulmarus glacialis
Fulton (current term)
Fulvicin
Fumaria
Fumaria claviculata
Fumaria fungosa
Fumaria officinalis
Fumaria sempervirens
Fumariaceae
Fumimaro Konoe
Fumimaro Konoye
Funafuti
Fundulus
Fundulus heteroclitus
Fundulus majalis
Funen

Literary usage of Fulton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"Robert Fulton. Memorial erected by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. ... Robert Fulton, [Appeal for the collection of a fund for the benefit of ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In 1806 Fulton had returned to the United States, and renewed his ... About this time Fulton invented a machine to cut the cables of ships at anchor. ..."

3. A New Nation by Charles Lester Barstow (1912)
"There Robert Fulton the inventor was born on November 14, 1765. In 1844 the township of Little Britain was resurveyed, and a new section was set aside, ..."

4. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1910)
"1247 THE HUDSON-Fulton CELEBRATION keeping with the celebration of the discovery of the Hudson r and the successful application of steam to navigation, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1875)
"Fulton. Report on the Practicability of Navigating with Steamboats on the Southern ... 26200 Fulton. A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation ..."

6. The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans: With Biographical ...edited by James Herring, James Barton Longacre edited by James Herring, James Barton Longacre (1852)
"The mind of Fulton was of an order which peculiarly fitted him for this undertaking: active, inventive, and unyielding, towering in stature, it may be aptly ..."

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