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The Machines That Built America

He heads to hisfavorite racetrack looking for a solution

He heads to his
favorite racetrack looking for a solution

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He heads to his favorite racetrack
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looking for a solution.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:18
Uploaded
May 09, 2025
Season
1
Episode
4
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 (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.
S01 • E03 ‐ [Narrator] He envisions a system - The Machines That Built America 00:09
‐ [Narrator] He envisions a system
S01 • E04 ‐ Mr. Hendee, were you at the race today? - The Machines That Built America 00:05
‐ Mr. Hendee, were you at the race today?
S01 • E03 ‐ Farnsworth realized that the secret of television - The Machines That Built America 00:08
‐ Farnsworth realized that the secret of television
S01 • E04 ‐ Oscar Hedstrom, he was a Swedish immigrant - The Machines That Built America 00:08
‐ Oscar Hedstrom, he was a Swedish immigrant
S01 • E04 He developed this motorized pacing bicycle - The Machines That Built America 00:06
He developed this motorized pacing bicycle
S01 • E03 And his idea was to organize them in lines - The Machines That Built America 00:08
And his idea was to organize them in lines
S01 • E04 The pacing vehicle leads the bikes around the track - The Machines That Built America 00:14
The pacing vehicle leads the bikes around the track
S01 • E01 Finally in 1890, - The Machines That Built America 00:06
Finally in 1890,
S01 • E03 ‐ [Narrator] It will be the foundation - The Machines That Built America 00:07
‐ [Narrator] It will be the foundation
S01 • E01 Nicknamed Old Betsy, - The Machines That Built America 00:12
Nicknamed Old Betsy,
S01 • E03 Farnsworth calls his idea electric television, - The Machines That Built America 00:08
Farnsworth calls his idea electric television,