• 2014
  • TV-PG
  • 6h
How We Got to Now

Summary Explores the power and the legacy of great ideas. View more details

  • 2014
  • TV-PG
  • 6h

How We Got to Now

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Steven Johnson Gene Chruszcz Kevin Fitzpatrick Terri Adams

All cast & crew

8.5

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Oct 14, 2014

Countries of origin : United States United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Nutopia BBC Worldwide Americas

Summary Explores the power and the legacy of great ideas. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Oct 14, 2014

Countries of origin : United States United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Nutopia BBC Worldwide Americas

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 14, 2014
Clean
Dirty water is transformed with a series of innovations - Chicago builds America's first sewer system, and Jersey City makes water safe for drinking (and bikinis). Manufacturing is transformed with the elimination of dust.
Episode 2 • Oct 14, 2014
Time
With no natural light, submarines re-invent the workday. Frustrated with hundreds of local time zones, a railroad clerk fights to standardize time. Navigation, travel, and technology advances result from unrecognized contributions to time.
Episode 3 • Oct 21, 2014
Glass
The invention of the mirror gives rise to the Renaissamce; glass lenses reveal worlds within worlds worlds; glass is essential; for communication in the deep ocean; glass lens allows millions to watch a man walk on the moon.
Episode 4 • Oct 28, 2014
Light
The pioneers of light; Edison's light bulb; a French scientist accidentally discovers a neon light.
Episode 5 • Nov 04, 2014
Cold
Ice delivery becomes big business, the father of frozen foods, Clarence Birdseye, and his vision for the future, and penguins who live in the desert.
Episode 6 • Nov 11, 2014
Sound
30,000 year old traces of a desire to record sound are located in caves, how radio influenced the civil rights movement, the weapon that laid the ground work for today's mobile phones, and the role of the ultrasound in modern medicine.
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