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Answer for the clue "American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815) ", 6 letters:
fulton

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Population (2000): 38250 Housing Units (2000): 16240 Land area (2000): 865.623998 sq. miles (2241.955768 sq. km) Water area (2000): 16.970212 sq. miles (43.952645 sq. km) Total area (2000): 882.594210 sq. miles (2285.908413 sq. km) Located within: Illinois ...

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Fulton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Fulton (1805-1885), founder of the Iowa State Agricultural Society Alexander Fulton (Louisiana) (unknown-ca. 1818), founder of Alexandria, Louisiana Alice Fulton (b. 1952), poet, author, ...

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The case arose out of a series of acts of the legislature of New York, passed between the years 1798 and 1811, which conferred upon Livingston and Fulton the exclusive right to navigate the waters of that State with steam-propelled vessels.

Fulton to the sidewalk, he climbed into the automobile and, in a few minutes, was in the library asking for the first volume of the last edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Davie Fulton, the brilliant young Rhodes Scholar from Kamloops, British Columbia, very quickly established himself as the procedural expert of the Conservative Party in battling the Liberal move, while Stanley Knowles from Winnipeg, and Colin Cameron from Nanaimo, British Columbia, became the chief spokesmen for the CCF.

Fulton accepted the offer immediately, though at the time, the Kamloops riding looked like an impregnable Liberal preserve.

Even so late as 1800, the friends of one Robert Fulton seriously entertained the luminous idea of hustling the poor man into an asylum for the unsound before he had a chance to fire up the boiler of his tiny steamboat on the Hudson river.

After the dispute had dragged The Disillusionment of Davie Fulton 165 on for two months, the strikers raided the camps of nonunion loggers hired by the companies.

Karen used to spend her evenings sitting on a stool near the right-field line in Fulton County Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia, running down foul balls hit that way by National League stalwarts.

Fulton pressed a button on his knee brace, and a small compartment slid open.

A couple of cargo schooners and a paddle steamer were docked in the river near the swimmers, along with the Fulton Ferry, the station of which stood next to the fish market.

In fact, as I said earlier, the whole Fulton Street market is not an inspiring sight.

Trumbull and his friends pushed through the turnstiles and entered the platform of the Fulton Street subway station, chattering and hooting.