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The Machines That Built America

� But then,inventors figured out how to get the steam engine to move the machine itself

� But then,
inventors figured out how to get the steam engine to move the machine itself

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‐ But then, inventors figured out
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how to get the steam engine
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to move the machine itself.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:41
Uploaded
May 09, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
Genres
documentary
Production
Six West Media

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Movie Summary

The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla, William Harley, Alexander Graham Bell, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
S01 • E01 And that's how you get the first tractors. - The Machines That Built America 00:05
And that's how you get the first tractors.
S01 • E03 ‐ [Narrator] Farnsworth believes the key is a new device - The Machines That Built America 00:05
‐ [Narrator] Farnsworth believes the key is a new device
S01 • E01 (dramatic music) - The Machines That Built America 00:11
(dramatic music)
S01 • E04 By 1900, George Hendee's bicycle business is on the ropes. - The Machines That Built America 00:05
By 1900, George Hendee's bicycle business is on the rop...
S01 • E03 It's already been used in radio to transmit sound. - The Machines That Built America 00:04
It's already been used in radio to transmit sound.
S01 • E03 He thinks it can do the same with images. - The Machines That Built America 00:04
He thinks it can do the same with images.
S01 • E04 He also sees the motorcycle - The Machines That Built America 00:06
He also sees the motorcycle
S01 • E01 So he and his brothers gamble - The Machines That Built America 00:11
So he and his brothers gamble
S01 • E04 He doesn't know the first thing about building one. - The Machines That Built America 00:04
He doesn't know the first thing about building one.
S01 • E01 (dramatic music) - The Machines That Built America 00:07
(dramatic music)
S01 • E04 He heads to his favorite racetrack - The Machines That Built America 00:06
He heads to his favorite racetrack
S01 • E01 (dramatic music) - The Machines That Built America 00:06
(dramatic music)
S01 • E04 ‐ Now George Hendee had been - The Machines That Built America 00:09
‐ Now George Hendee had been
S01 • E01 (dramatic music) - The Machines That Built America 00:15
(dramatic music)
S01 • E03 While staring at the family's potato field, - The Machines That Built America 00:08
While staring at the family's potato field,
S01 • E04 So it comes to reason that he would reach out to some - The Machines That Built America 00:08
So it comes to reason that he would reach out to some
S01 • E03 ‐ You plow a field by doing one row, - The Machines That Built America 00:06
‐ You plow a field by doing one row,
S01 • E01 But in the late 1880s, - The Machines That Built America 00:09
But in the late 1880s,
S01 • E04 ‐ Mr. Hedstrom. - The Machines That Built America 00:05
‐ Mr. Hedstrom.
S01 • E03 ‐ That's it, that was his bolt from the blue. - The Machines That Built America 00:04
‐ That's it, that was his bolt from the blue.