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