Weston Fulton in Tennessee: Edison of the South

Being an inventor at the dawning of the twentieth century was an exciting time for Weston Fulton, Tennessee’s most prolific. The Industrial Revolution was well underway, and technology was changing rapidly. Because of Fulton’s numerous inventions and patent requests, the U.S. Patent Office dedicated a room solely to his applications, and the press began calling him the “Edison of the South.” His most important invention, the seamless metal bellows, has gone to the bottom of the sea as the t...