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| 1. | Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat. |
| 2. | a city in central New York. 13,312. |
| 3. | a city in central Missouri. 11,046. |
| 4. | a male given name. |
| Fulton, Robert 1765-1815. American engineer and inventor who developed the first useful submarine and torpedo (1800) and produced the first practical steamboat, the Clermont (1807). |
An American inventor of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He launched the first successful steamboat, the Clermont, in 1807, on the Hudson River in New York.
