Inventor, Adventurer, Author. He developed his taste for adventure as a child, after his family took him on early commercial flights to Florida and Cuba, and a 1923 trip to Egypt following the opening of King Tut's tomb. He attended Harvard in 1931 and received a master's degree in architecture from the University of Vienna. Then, in July of 1932, he headed east from London riding a twin-cylinder Douglas motorcycle on a 40,000 mile trip around the world, finishing up in New York in December of 1933. He wrote a book about the adventure, "One Man Caravan", which was published in 1937. In 1939 he invented the Gunairstructor, an aircraft gunnery simulator used by the U.S. Navy to aid in the training of World War II pilots. Fulton taught himself to fly and traveled around the world working with the military. He frequently had trouble finding ground transportation to and from airports, so he began work inventing the Airphibian (a flying car) in 1945, which made its first successful flight in 1947. The Airphibian could be converted from airplane to car in less than five minutes by removing the wings and propeller. In 1950 it became the first flying car to be certified by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The Airphibian never succeeded commercially, but there is one on display at the Smithsonian Institute. During the 1950s he began work on the Skyhook aerial rescue system. It was used to quickly lift people from the ground and into a passing airplane. The person on the ground would put on a suit and release a 500-foot nylon line attached to a helium filled balloon. The rescue plane would catch the line with a special hook, quickly pulling the person aboard. The system was used extensively to rescue downed pilots. He had more than 70 patents before his death at the age of 95.