Name: My Million Dollar Invention
Released: 2015-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · History

Explore inventions large and small, lifesaving and life-taking, scary and playful, while learning the inspirations, controversies, triumphs, and tragedies of the inventors who often risked their lives to follow their vision and change the world.

2015 · 46m

EPISODE 3

Criminal Riches

Get the inside scoop on the illicit origins of four inventions with criminal ties: the Tommy gun, the home alarm, cash registers, and the toothbrush. Meet the brilliant minds willing to do anything to bring their innovations to the world.
EPISODE 4

Danger Magnets

Get to know the inventors who set out to get rich or die trying. Celebrate the pioneers whose revolutionary ideas of lightweight body armor, firefighter masks, modern anesthesia, and the wingsuit altered history and made millions in the process.
EPISODE 5

The Need For Speed

Go behind the planet’s most popular inventions to learn their secrets, including how a waffle iron changed the world of running shoes forever.
EPISODE 6

Life and Death

Uncover the true stories behind four gadgets, including the coil-spring mattress, a seed-planting device, and the 3D printer, that made history while making millions for their inventors.