John Fulton

John or Jack Fulton may refer to:

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John Fulton (instrument maker)

John Fulton (1803–1853), was originally a cobbler or shoemaker by trade. He built three orrerys in a workshop attached to at his home, now demolished, in the Kirton Brae area of Fenwick and was eventually appointed instrument maker to King William IV, moving to London, but retiring to Fenwick. He is buried in the Fenwick Kirk graveyard.

Life

It is recorded that John's father, also a cobbler, was a subscribing member to the library set up in the village by the Fenwick Weavers and with access to this library, he pursued his interest in astronomy, mathematics, physics, and other disciplines that led to his career as an instrument maker of outstanding ability and achievement. Largely self-taught, he studied botany, learned several foreign languages, constructed a ‘velocipede’ or early bicycle, and experimented with the production of coal gas. He had left school at the age of only thirteen.

However astronomy held a particular fascination for him and led to his constructing, in his spare time, three working models of the solar system, known as orrerys.

John Fulton (writer)

John Fulton (born November 14, 1967) is an American author based in Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He grew up in Utah and Montana, studied at Whitman College, and lived in Europe for five years. He is a 1997 graduate of the University of Michigan Creative Writing MFA Program. His story collection, The Animal Girl, was published in 2007 by Louisiana State University Press. He is the author of Retribution, which won the 2001 Southern Review Short Fiction Award for the best first collection of short stories. His novel, More Than Enough, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a finalist for the Midland Society of Authors Award. His work has appeared in Zoetrope, Oxford American, and The Southern Review. His short story “Hunters” won a 2006 Pushcart Prize.

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Short story collections