Fulton

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/ ˈfʊl tn /

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

a city in central New York.

a city in central Missouri.

a male given name.

Example sentences from the Web for fulton

Go look at a map of Fulton County, Georgia, which contains Atlanta, and see how large it is.

Ferguson and the Urban-Suburban Race Conflict |Michael Tomasky |August 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The population of Fulton County as a whole is 977,000, meaning that more than half the people live outside Atlanta proper.

Ferguson and the Urban-Suburban Race Conflict |Michael Tomasky |August 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Sharpton now escorted Fulton through the moving media swarm.

At Trayvon Rally, Sybrina Fulton Shows Quiet Strength |Michael Daly |July 21, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Water had flowed into the Fulton Stall Market, across from which five Con Edison trucks sat parked.

In the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Manhattanites Assess the Damage |Matthew DeLuca |October 30, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

Iris Callaway, an active Republican volunteer in Fulton County, agreed.

Callista Gingrich Speaks on the Campaign Trail |Patricia Murphy |February 19, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Fulton and his lawyer, Emmet, had to walk over the ice to get ashore.

Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 |Anonymous
Fulton, the American engineer, (originally a painter) studied here in 1795.

Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham |Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
Have written a poem for the Hudson and Fulton celebration, September 28.

Julia Ward Howe |Laura E. Richards
Fulton was immediately urged to make regular trips, and, although the Clermont needed many improvements, he consented.

American Inventions and Inventors |William A. Mowry
He named it the Clermont, but it was generally spoken of as "Fulton's Folly" by the crowds who watched its building.

The Child's Book of American Biography |Mary Stoyell Stimpson

Fulton

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

Fulton

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Robert 1765-1815

American engineer and inventor who developed the first useful submarine and torpedo (1800) and produced the first practical steamboat (1807).