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Peabody's Improbable History

Season 1 · Episode 9

Robert Fulton

0.05mJanuary 17, 1960

In 1807, Robert Fulton's steamship is pitted against Robert E. Leech's sail-powered boat.

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Episode 1Show Opening (Ben Franklin)
Episode 2Napoleon
Episode 3Lord Nelson
Episode 4Wyatt Earp
Episode 5King Arthur
Episode 6Franz Schubert
Episode 7Lucrezia Borgia
Episode 8Sir Walter Raleigh
Episode 9Robert Fulton
Episode 10Annie Oakley
Episode 11Jesse James
Episode 12The Wright Brothers
Episode 13George Armstrong Custer
Episode 14Alfred Nobel
Episode 15Marco Polo
Episode 16Richard the Lion-Hearted
Episode 17Don Juan
Episode 18William Tecumseh Sherman
Episode 19The First Kentucky Derby
Episode 20P. T. Barnum
Episode 21Stanley & Livingstone
Episode 22Louis Pasteur
Episode 23Robin Hood
Episode 24Robinson Crusoe
Episode 25Ponce de León
Episode 26Leonardo da Vinci
Episode 27John L. Sullivan
Episode 28Paul Revere
Episode 29Confucius
Episode 30Nero
Episode 31Captain Matthew Clift
Episode 32Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Episode 33Peter Cooper
Episode 34The Battle of Bunker Hill
Episode 35The Pony Express
Episode 36Stephen Decatur
Episode 37Alexander Graham Bell
Episode 38Commander Peary
Episode 39Pancho Villa
Episode 40Lord Francis Douglas
Episode 41Sitting Bull
Episode 42Christopher Columbus
Episode 43The French Foreign Legion
Episode 44Guglielmo Marconi
Episode 45Scotland Yard
Episode 46John Holland
Episode 47Louis XVI
Episode 48Francisco Pizarro
Episode 49Daniel Boone
Episode 50William Shakespeare
Episode 51Zebulon Pike
Episode 52The First Golf Match
Episode 53William Tell
Episode 54James McNeill Whistler
Episode 55Ferdinand Magellan
Episode 56Ludwig van Beethoven
Episode 57Calamity Jane
Episode 58Cornwallis' Surrender
Episode 59The First Indian Nickel
Episode 60Jules Verne
Episode 61Casanova
Episode 62Lawrence of Arabia
Episode 63Bonnie Prince Charlie
Episode 64Paul Reuter
Episode 65Johannes Gutenberg
Episode 66Buffalo Bill
Episode 67Hans Christian Ørsted
Episode 68Leif Ericson
Episode 69John Sutter
Episode 70Sir Isaac Newton
Episode 71Kit Carson
Episode 72The First Caveman
Episode 73Geronimo
Episode 74The Great Wall of China
Episode 75The Marquis of Queensbury
Episode 76Jim Bowie
Episode 77Edgar Allan Poe
Episode 78Charge of the Light Brigade
Episode 79The Royal Mounted Police
Episode 80The First Bullfight
Episode 81The Building of The Great Pyramid
Episode 82John James Audubon
Episode 83Mata Hari
Episode 84Galileo
Episode 85Wellington At Waterloo
Episode 86Florence Nightingale
Episode 87Henry the VIII
Episode 88The First Indianapolis Auto Race
Episode 89Captain Kidd
Episode 90The Texas Rangers
Episode 91Cleopatra