History Remade With Sabrina

Since the advent of the internet, it's hard to remember how printing transformed the world. In this episode, Sabrina recreates Gutenberg's printing press using time-accurate techniques and explores how it laid the foundation for how information is spread today.

You might think of watermills as quaint constructions in countrysides - when in actuality watermills redefined work. In the Roman era, one mill could replace the labor of dozens of men! To explain this revolutionary tech, Sabrina creates a scale model of the 16 Roman watermills of Barbegal, a 300 CE construction that could create enough flour for 27,000 people.

How did a simple series of dots and dashes transform worldwide communication? To find out, Sabrina recreates the telegraph, Samuel Morse’s groundbreaking 1832 invention (and your cell phone’s cool great-grandparent). Learn more in this episode of History Remade with Sabrina.

Sabrina recreates a Viking longship using ancient shipbuilding techniques and a... watermelon? Uncover how the viking vessel's unique design helped shape the Norse legacy, in this episode of History Remade.

Al-Jazari, one of the greatest inventors during the Golden Age of Islam, developed concepts crucial to devices we still use today. In this episode, Sabrina recreates Al-Jazari’s drumming automaton—or drumming robot!