Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Nov 5, 2012
The mobile phone has connected the modern world, but inventing it took the most beautiful woman in the world Hedy Lemar, Frankenstein's creator, the Titanic tragedy, and the ultimate stroll down 6th Avenue.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Nov 12, 2012
The skyscraper – the ultimate symbol of power and wealth around the world. But, incredibly, to invent the skyscraper it took a bird in a cage, the Chicago fire, a chance question from a college student, and the humble horse and wagon.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Nov 19, 2012
The aeroplane - it's made our dream of flight a reality, but the moments of genius and invention it took to invent it involved not just birds as inspiration, but a pair of bicycling brothers, a trip to the Moon and back, a pair of frozen eyeballs and two nervous breakdowns.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Nov 26, 2012
The car - so much more than getting us from A-B; but the eureka moments it took to invent the car we know today included a Scottish veterinarian's gift for his son, an ambitious wife of an inventor named Benz, thousands of slaughtered animals and a chemist's terrifying experiment with boiling oil.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Dec 3, 2012
Exploring one of the most deadly inventions of the modern age - guns, how they are created, who are the men that build them and what impact they have on our lives. The evolution of guns is examined.
