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Fulton, Robert
- 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 .
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The next to become active in this line of discovery was Robert Fulton, the inventor of the first practical steamboat.
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And he built a paddle-wheel steamboat that was a success before Robert Fulton tried his.
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Robert Fulton was born in Pennsylvania just as Watt began his study of the steam engine.
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After Franklin, came Robert Fulton, the first man successfully to apply the power of the steam-engine to the propulsion of boats.
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This significance was also clearly perceived by his brilliant successor, Robert Fulton.
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