How We Got to Now

Explores the power and the legacy of great ideas.

2014 HD 60min United States English

Steven Johnson

Documentary History

innovation

S1E2 - Time 2014-10-15

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.

S1E3 - Glass 2014-10-22

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.

S1E4 - Light 2014-10-29

The pioneers of light; Edisons light bulb; a French scientist accidentally discovers a neon light.

S1E5 - Cold 2014-11-05

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.

S1E6 - Sound 2014-11-12

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 todays mobile phones, and the role of the ultrasound in modern medicine.

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