Editing Robert Fulton (section)

===In popular culture===
[[20th Century-Fox]]'s 1940 film, ''[[Little Old New York (1940 film)|Little Old New York]]'', based on a 1920 play by [[Rida Johnson Young]], is a fictionalized version of Fulton's life from his arrival in New York to the first sailing of ''Clermont''. British actor [[Richard Greene]] starred as Fulton with Brenda Joyce as Harriet Livingston. [[Alice Faye]] and [[Fred MacMurray]] played wharf friends who help Fulton overcome problems to realize his dream.

A fictionalized account of Fulton's role was produced by [[BBC]] television during the 1960s. In the first serial, ''Triton'' (1961,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2a0da136dd914fc181a70f256b441695|title=Triton: Part 2|website=BBC Genome|date=13 April 1962 |access-date=8 December 2018}}</ref> [[Triton (1968 TV series)|re-made in 1968]]), two British naval officers, Captain Belwether and Lieutenant Lamb, are involved in spying on Fulton while he is working for the French. In the sequel, ''[[Pegasus (TV series)|Pegasus]]'' (1969), they are surprised to find themselves working with Fulton after he changed sides. In the 1961 series, Fulton was played by [[Reed De Rouen]], in the 1968 and 1969 series he was played by [[Robert Cawdron]].

A Robert Fulton cartoon character appears in the 1955 [[Casper the Friendly Ghost]] short film ''Red, White, and Boo''.

Author [[James McGee (author)|James McGee]] used Fulton's experiments in early submarine warfare (against wooden warships) as a major plot element in his 2006 novel ''Ratcatcher''.

''Invasion'' (2009), the tenth novel in the "Kydd" naval warfare series by [[Julian Stockwin]], uses Fulton and his submarine as an important plot element.<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 9780340961155|title = Invasion|last1 = Stockwin|first1 = Julian|year = 2009| publisher=Hodder & Stoughton }}</ref>

Until 2016, [[Disney Springs]] at [[Walt Disney World]] had a restaurant named Fulton's Crab House with a building in the shape of a steamboat.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/the-daily-disney/os-fultons-crabhouse-paddlefish-20160425-story.html|title=Fulton's Crab House at Disney Springs changing to Paddlefish|last=Arnold|first=Kyle|work=OrlandoSentinel.com|access-date=2018-01-31|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/the-daily-disney/os-et-paddlefish-disney-springs-20170203-story.html|title=First Look: Paddlefish in Disney Springs|last=Delgado|first=Lauren|work=OrlandoSentinel.com|access-date=2018-01-31|language=en-US}}</ref>