How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson - Season 1

How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes6
DatesOct 15, 2014 - Nov 12, 2014

Episodes

Clean
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
Time
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
Glass
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
Light
Season 1Episode 460 min

Light

The pioneers of light; Edison's light bulb; a French scientist accidentally discovers a neon light.
Oct 29, 2014
Cold
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
Sound
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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