NOUN
- American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
How To Use Robert Fulton In A Sentence
- Robert Fulton's proposal to build a steamboat was at first regarded as fantastic.
- An example that Mr. Folsom provided: the ferry magnate Robert Fulton, who operated successfully on the Hudson thanks to a 30-year exclusive concession from the New York state legislature. An Age of Creative Destruction
- From the roundtop-mast of an English ship, just brought in as a prize, he one day witnessed the steaming in of Robert Fulton's steamboat. Memorials of a southern planter,
