Fulton

Examples

• This was ultimately done, and in April, 1804, Fulton left France and returned to London. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Fulton was now forty-two years old, and famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But the _Clermont_, in spite of all prophecies to the contrary, had traveled under her own steam from New York to Albany, and the trip was the crowning event in Fulton’s career as inventor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The first steam war vessel was built in 1814 by Fulton for the defence of New York Harbor, during the then existing war times. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A century has not dimmed Fulton’s fame, nor set aside his claim to be the practical inventor of the steamboat. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Earl was deeply interested, and encouraged the young American to persevere, but for the time Fulton left the steamboat to work out other problems. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At the same time the British government awakened to the great possibilities of Fulton’s device. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The general impression, even of those who were friendly to Fulton, was that it would fail, and an accident which occurred when the vessel was under way confirmed this opinion. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The brig was blown up in the presence of an immense throng, and Fulton finally sold his invention to the British government for $75,000. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It succeeded the successful paddle wheels of Fulton in America and Bell in England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At length, on February 28, 1801, Fulton received word from Napoleon, the First Consul, to send his torpedo-boat against the English fleet. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For seven years Fulton lived with them, busy about the most diverse matters, and always keenly interested in the struggles of the new and hot-tempered republic. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He interested Fulton in his schemes and gradually weaned his thoughts away from art to civil engineering. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At the same time that Fulton was in Paris making his first experiments with the steamboat, Col. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Fulton’s attention was drawn from canal-building to the possibility of some invention that might tend to subserve peace, and this in time led him to design and build the first torpedo. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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