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How We Got To Now

How We Got To Now is a TV show on American national television from PBS with an average rating of 3.1 stars by WatchTVOnDemand.com's visitors. We have 12 episodes of How We Got To Now in our archive. The first episode of How We Got To Now was broadcast in November, 2014. Did you miss an episode of How We Got To Now but don't you wan't that to happen in the future? Please set an alarm and add How We Got To Now to your favorites, so we can remind you by email when there's a new episode available to watch. Completely free: handy!

Rating:3.1 of 5Total number of episodes:12
Last broadcast:11/12/2014 at 2:01AM

November 2014

Sound

Expired11/12/2014 3.0 92 x

Imagine a world without the power to capture or transmit sound. Steven Johnson journeys to the Arcy sur Cure caves in northern France, where he finds the first traces of the desire to record sound. He also learns about the role radio played in the civil rights movement and reveals the Hollywood star who designed a WW2 weap...

Cold

Expired11/05/2014 3.0 55 x

Steven Johnson explains how entrepreneur Frederic Tudor made ice delivery one of the biggest export business in the U.S. and where Clarence Birdseye, the father of the frozen food industry, experienced his eureka moment. He also travels to Dubai to see how cold has led to penguins in the desert. From IVF to food, Hollywood...

October 2014

Light

Expired10/29/2014 3.0 42 x

Best-selling author Steven Johnson tells the story of the people who took us out of the dark and into the light, including the invention of Edison’s light bulb and how an 18th-century shipping community discovered a source of illumination by putting a kid inside a whale’s head.

Glass

Expired10/22/2014 3.0 205 x

Best-selling author Steven Johnson considers how the invention of the mirror gave rise to the Renaissance, how glass lenses allow us to reveal worlds within worlds and how, deep beneath the ocean, glass is essential to communication. The link between the worlds of art, science, astronomy, disease prevention and global comm...

Time

Expired10/15/2014 3.5 302 x

Best-selling author Steven Johnson boards a submarine to discover what a lack of natural light means for a sailor’s working day and visits Heathrow, the world’s busiest airport, to try to get timings right at air traffic control. Learn how advancements in navigation, the way we work, technology and travel would have been i...

Clean

10/15/2014 3.0 354 x

Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. The iPhone, the subway, flat screen TVs and even the bikini are the result of the valiant efforts of the unsung heroes of clean.

Preview

10/15/2014 3.0 43 x

Six-Part Series to Premiere in Fall 2014 on PBS.

Short videos

00:31Preview of 'Cold'11/05/2014

00:31Light Promo10/29/2014

00:31Glass Promo10/22/2014

03:49Steven's Memorable Moments09/11/2014

00:43Preview of Sound09/11/2014

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