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Origins: The History of Everything explores the remarkable origin of hundreds of the world's most influential and important inventions, natural objects, products, games, and ideas from technology, sports, medicine, business and more.
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1. The Helicopter, Scuba, & Space Travel
19mThree technologies that gave us the opportunity to go where we had never gone before.
Watching2. The Bow and Arrow, Gun, & Atomic Bomb
19mThree weapons that led to the rise and fall of empires.
3. Anesthesia, Antibiotics, & Organ Transplants
19mThree life-saving medical marvels that revolutionized treatment and expanded the limits of medicine.
4. The Telescope, X-Ray, & Electron Microscope
19mThree feats of invention that revealed the world beyond and within in almost unthinkable detail.
5. Trains, Cars, & Airplanes
19mThree revolutionary modes of transportation that forever altered the way we live, work, and play.
6. The Seismograph, Radar, & Satellite
19mThree life-saving technologies for forecasting danger, helping us predict and endure some of the most deadly phenomena on Earth.
7. Skydiving, Mountaineering, & Running
19mThree physical challenges that suggest the human body, combined with mental determination, is truly limitless.
8. Fire, Matches, & Dynamite
19mMan's ways of harnessing one of Mother Nature's most crucial elements.
9. Three Manmade Marvels: The Great Pyramid, the Moai, & the Burj Khaifa
19mThree man made marvels, ancient to modern, that showcase the incredible breadth of human imagination and man's mastery of engineering.
10. City Makers: Skyscrapers, Subways, & City Parks
19mThree advancements to the urban landscape that made modern city living possible.
11. The Control of Nature: Dams, Highways, & Canals
19mThree ways mankind has reshaped earth to overcome boundaries to commerce, travel, and development.
12. The Horse, Bicycle, & Motorcycle
19mThree modes of solitary transportation that gave us freedom and adventure.
13. Samurai, Knights, & Special Forces
19mThree fighters throughout history who have defended and advanced power.
14. Tank, Combat Aircraft, & Military Drone
19mThree war machines that changed the face of modern warfare forever.
15. Writing, Libraries, & Internet
19mThree ways for leaving a legacy, for the future.
16. Monarchy, Democracy, & Communism
19mThree forms of government and the struggle for nations to define themselves.
17. Submarines, Battleships, & Armadas
19mThree revolutionary war vessels and the pursuit of naval supremacy.
18. Painting, Photography, & Motion Pictures
19mThree powerful mediums, and the men who struggled to reflect our world back at us.
19. Dentists, Eye Doctors, & Psychology and Psychiatry
19mThree fields of medicine that preserve the health of body and mind.
20. Gods, Ghosts, & UFO's
19mThree ways that man experiences the unknown.
21. Plagues, Economic Collapse, & Nuclear War
19mThree paths to destruction that are side effects of civilization.
22. Fishing, Farming, & Animal Farms
19mThree ways we exploit earth's resources to feed ourselves.
25. Exploration, Mapping, & Exploring Space
19mThree movements to discover where we are.
26. Mining, Steel, & Oil
19mThree ways in which man harvests the world's natural resources.