Inventor Name
Fulton, George Ware
Repository
University of Texas
The Center for American History
Sid Richardson Hall 2.101
1 University Station D1100
Austin, Texas 78712-0335
512-495-4515
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/collectioncomponents/barker.html
Physical Description
ca. 5 ft.
Summary
George Ware Fulton was born in Philadelphia on June 8, 1810 and founded othe Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company. He became a schoolteacher, watchmaker, and maker of mathematical instruments and lived in Indiana in Montezuma and Terre Haute. Fulton's expertise as a surveyor, engineer, businessman, and inventor led to the development of the company as a leader in slaughtering cattle for hide and tallow and later in shipping cattle to New Orleans by boat. He received United States patent No. 92,035 for shipping beef under artificial cooling and also one for a steam-engine modification. Legal papers contain patents of inventions.