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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Six months after the bloody coup of 11 September 1973, which began the brutal 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, these four Scotsmen – Bob Fulton, Robert Somerville, John Keenan, Stuart Barrie – downed tools and refused to service and repair engines for the Chilean air force’s Hawker Hunter planes.

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Fulton, Robert, tries to interest N. in steam, ii.

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The nation that produced Robert Fulton, Robert Goddard, Edmund Land and many others now has far fewer folk-hero tinkerers.

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Fulton, Robert, and his mother, 310; and Napoleon, 42; experiments on the Seine, 43; success with the Clermont, 45; death of, 161.

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Fulton, Robert, 328-332, 345, 371.

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Frost, Robert Robert Guiscard

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