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The Re-Inventors
Over more than 500 years, tens of millions of patents for products have been issued, but some are lost to history, and most don't achieve the success of, say, the telephone. Hosts Matt Hunter and Jeremy MacPherson dig up some of those of yore to see how the ideas would fare in the modern world. The guys work with a team to examine original blueprints, build prototypes and test the inventions to see how well they work. Some that the hosts want to tackle are a submarine from the late 1500s, a 14th-century machine using wind power to propel a wagon, and a 1950s design combining a Ford Thunderbird with airplane parts to make a flying car.
EP1 "Zhang Hengs Seismometer"
Zhang Heng's Selsmometer.
EP8 "Battering Ram"
Re-creating a battering ram, made to smash through city walls and gates.
EP9 "War Kite"
Using a Japanese kite design from 17th century and Chinese fire arrow technology to launch an attack from the sky.
EP10 "Pedestrian Protector"
Rebuilding Heinrich Karl's 1932 invention that protects pedestrians if they should be hit by a car.
EP5 "Flying Machine"
See if some of the ideas that were put forward to figure out how to fly could have beat the Wright brothers to the sky.
EP4 "Gun Helmet"
A World War I era helmet gun is built to see who would be in more danger, the user or the target.
EP3 "Head Parachute"
Getting people out of a burning building has been a challenge faced by inventors and designers since people started living in them.
EP1 "Flying Car"
With the advent and spread of airplanes and automobiles in the beginning of the 20th century an idea emerged that a marriage of the two would create the ultimate travel miracle.
