About Otho Fulton
Lived 1868 – 1938 (aged 69–70). Otho Fulton was an inventor.
Dr. Otho Fulton (1868–1938) was an American inventor with a number of inventions in facsimile transmissions, including the fultograph. He sent a picture across a radio channel from London to Sydney. He was also a director of the British General Electric Company, and served in the Boer War and World War I as a captain in the British Army. He was also a friend of Robert Baden-Powell and was the third appointed member of The Scout Association.
Fulton died of a heart attack at the age of 70.
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Who was Otho Fulton?
American inventor
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Otho Fulton was born in 1868.
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Otho Fulton died in 1938.
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Otho Fulton was an inventor.
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