How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson - Season 1

Season 1
Network
Episodes6
DatesOct 15, 2014 - Nov 12, 2014
Episodes

Season 1Episode 160 min
Clean
Dirty water is transformed with a series of innovations - Chicago builds America's first sewer system, and Jersey City makes water safe for drinking (and bikinis). Manufacturing is transformed with the elimination of dust.
Oct 15, 2014

Season 1Episode 260 min
Time
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.
Oct 15, 2014

Season 1Episode 360 min
Glass
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.
Oct 22, 2014

Season 1Episode 460 min
Light
The pioneers of light; Edison's light bulb; a French scientist accidentally discovers a neon light.
Oct 29, 2014

Season 1Episode 560 min
Cold
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.
Nov 5, 2014

Season 1Episode 660 min
Sound
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 today's mobile phones, and the role of the ultrasound in modern medicine.
Nov 12, 2014
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