The Machines That Built America - Season 1 - Eps 2: Plane Pioneers
In 1910, airplanes are a novelty, fragile wooden concoctions that float in the air--and crash. But that doesn't stop two young dreamers with a passion for this newfangled machine from imagining a very different future: one in which planes carry millions of passengers across the country, even across the seas. To realize that vision and create a lucrative new market, William Boeing and Donald Douglas take on automobile titan Henry Ford, infamous Dutch aviation giant Anthony Fokker--and each other.
About The Machines That Built America
Title: The Machines That Built America
First Air Date: 2021-07-18
Last Air Date: 2021-08-29
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7/10 (from 3 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 8
Network: History
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Six West Media
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Campbell Scott
Self - Narrator
Travis Taylor
Self - Engineer
Max Hastings
Arno Peterson
