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Robert Fulton

NOUN
  1. 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,
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