How We Got to Now

  • : 2014
  • : 6
  • : 24
  • PBS
  • 22
  • Documentary History

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Clean
Episode overview
15, 2014
Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed .. show full overview
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Time
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15, 2014
Board a submarine with Steven Johnson to discover what a lack of natural light means for a sailor’s working day and visit Heathrow, the world’s busiest airport, to try to get timings .. show full overview
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Glass
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22, 2014
Join Steven Johnson and consider how the invention of the mirror spurred on the Renaissance, how glass lenses allow us to reveal worlds within worlds and how, deep beneath the ocean, .. show full overview
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Light
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29, 2014
Steven Johnson relates the story of people who take us out of the dark and into the light. Hear about Edison’s light bulb, which he didn’t actually invent, and learn how an 18th-century .. show full overview
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Cold
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05, 2014
Only in the last 200 years have humans learned how to make things cold. Steven Johnson explains how ice entrepreneur Frederic Tudor made ice delivery one of the biggest export business .. show full overview
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Sound
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12, 2014
Imagine a world without the power to capture or transmit sound. Journey with Steven Johnson to the Arcy sur Cure caves in northern France, where he finds the first traces of the desire .. show full overview

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