Fulton Robert

Ful·ton

F0359800 (fo͝ol′tən), Robert 1765-1815. American engineer and inventor who developed an experimental submarine (1800) and produced the first commercially successful steamboat, the North River, popularly known as the Clermont (1807).

Ful·ton

(fo͝ol′tən), Robert 1765-1815. American engineer and inventor who developed the first useful submarine and torpedo (1800) and produced the first practical steamboat (1807).