All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 The Telescope

    • April 17, 2019
    • PBS

    A look at how the telescope was invented, from Galileo to Edwin Hubble, and how the invention reaches the universe 13 billion light-years out.

  • S01E02 The Airplane

    • April 24, 2019
    • PBS

    Take to the sky with the dreamers whose work gave humans the ability to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci’s “flying machines” to the modern commercial plane, without these inventions, we may have never left the ground.

  • S01E03 The Robot

    • May 1, 2019
    • PBS

    Robots are first conceptualized in ancient Rome; how uses for robots have evolved over the centuries, from the calculator to the Roomba; what future robots might be able to do.

  • S01E04 The Car

    • May 8, 2019
    • PBS

    Go for a ride through the 9,000-year history of the car, from its roots in dogsleds to Henry Ford’s affordable and assembly line-built Model T, and meet the scientists working on the next generation of self-driving automobiles.

  • S01E05 The Rocket

    • May 15, 2019
    • PBS

    Learn the explosive history of the rocket, from its origin in ancient China, to its use as a weapon of war, to how adding hydrogen allowed it to carry astronauts all the way to the moon.

  • S01E06 The Smartphone

    • May 22, 2019
    • PBS

    Dial in to the fascinating history of the smartphone, from its roots in Morse Code to 2007, when Apple unveiled the first-ever iPhone. Plus, see how the next generation of smartphones will allow us to communicate through them just by thinking.