How We Invented the World

Name: How We Invented the World
Released: 2012-11-05T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Seth Porges, Sarah Armstrong, Dermot Brogan

TV Show · Documentary

How We Invented the World lifts the lid on the inventions that define the modern world, and celebrates the people and connections that made them possible. The series reveals stories of human ingenuity, extraordinary connections, unprecedented experimentation and jaw dropping accidents that created the world as we know it.

2012 · 43m

Starring Seth Porges, Sarah Armstrong, Dermot Brogan

EPISODE 1

Mobile Phones

Discover how the sinking of the Titanic inspired the development of the mobile phone.

43m
EPISODE 2

Skyscrapers

A bird in a cage, a city in flames, and a chance question from a college student influenced the innovations of skyscrapers.

43m
EPISODE 3

Airplanes

How the Wright brothers, a trip to the moon, and a pair of frozen eyeballs made dreams of flight a reality.

43m
EPISODE 4

Cars

A look at how the ideas of an ambitious wife and the innovations of a Scottish vet led to the invention of the car; the impact of the revolutionary vehicle on the modern world.

41m