inventors

Examines the lives and personalities of thirty inventors whose products changed the world, discusses their working processes, and looks at how they did or did not succeed in achieving their visions.

This is a biography of the inventor who became an important figure in both the rise of cotton production in the South and the development of an industrialized economy in the North.

This is a biography of the well known American statesman, inventor, printer, and author of Poor Richard's Almanacks.

A biography of the man who invented the cotton gin and became one of the founding fathers of American technology.

A Chinese jewel thief finds refuge with an eccentric English adventurer in the midst of a daring mission to journey around the world in 80 days, by land, sea and air, overcoming impossible obstacles along the way.

Documentary on the life and career of the American inventor Thomas A. Edison.

Tells the story of Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, discussing how he came up with the seeds of the idea at the age of fourteen, and successfully demonstrated his work at twenty-one, and looking at how close he came, as an employee of ITT, to harnessing nuclear fusion.