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The Machines That Built America

So he and his brothers gamble and invest nearlyevery cent they have; some 2 million,...

So he and his brothers gamble and invest nearly
every cent they have; some 2 million, today, into a factory to produce
huge steam tractors

Full Transcript

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So he and his brothers gamble
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and invest nearly every cent they have;
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some 2 million, today,
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into a factory to produce huge steam tractors.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:02
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 • 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 • 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 • E01 But in the late 1880s, - The Machines That Built America 00:09
But in the late 1880s,
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,