Roaming. Rolling across a continent : the prairie schooner ; Inventing a city : New York
the Erie Canal ; The original "skyscrapers" : the Yankee clipper ; "A man, a plan..." : the Panama Canal ; The electric underground : building the New York subway ; Dream car : the Lincoln Zephyr ; A plane for the ages : the transcontinental plane ; On the waterfront : the container ship ; "Fly me to the moon" : Apollo 11 and the space race ; How will we travel in the future? : from the space elevator to the hoverboard
Trains. "The golden vein" : the transcontinental railroad ; "Like two gargantuan tumblers" : the Hudson and East River tunnels ; The new cathedrals : America's train stations ; The trains they paid to see : streamlined trains
Communicating. No need to stop it : the rotary printing press ; What Morse wrought : the electric telegraph ; "Faster" : the transatlantic cable ; Watson was wanted : the telephone ; The sound of America singing : magnetic tape recording
Computing. "A computer on a chip" : the microprocessor ; Unimate : the first industrial robot ; A factory at your fingertips : 3-D printing ; The evolved human : the cyborg
Apparel. Ouch! : the safety pin ; "The song of the shirt" : the sewing machine wars ; Fitting a pattern : Madame Demorest's fashion sense ; "Bell-bottom blues" ; copper-riveted jeans ; Embracing the curves : liberated by the bra ; It's not dry : dry cleaning ; Sneaking around : the athletic shoe
Women inventors. Women reinvent housework : the dishwasher and the diaper cover ; "The lady Edisons" : from liquid paper to Kevlar
Building. "All safe, ladies and gentlemen, all safe" : Mr. Otis's safety elevator ; Building the spine of the modern world : Carnegie's steel mills ; Building backward : steel-frame construction ; The great indoors : cooling the air ; Suspended in the clouds : the Golden Gate Bridge ; Utility as beauty : the River Rouge ; "Architects may come and architects may go ..." : Fallingwater ; Inventing a city : Chicago
building the Big Onion from scratch
Powering. Power plant at sea : the whaling ship ; Black gold : the oil rig ; Wizard's work : the electric light ; Taming the Colorado : the Hoover Dam ; Power to the people : the Tennessee Valley Authority ; The warm power of the sun : the solar cell
Fighting. Winning the revolution : the Pennsylvania rifle ; Mobile warfare : the repeating rifle ; Firepower : the Gatling gun
Curing. Transfusions help win the war : blood plasma ; It started with Frankenstein : the artificial pacemaker ; Mapping the body : the MRI ; Man to Cheetah : the modern prosthesis ; Heal thyself : gene therapy
Producing. Mr. Whitney's machine : the cotton gin ; Breadbasket to the world : mechanized farming ; The American way of shopping : the supermarket ; Inventing a city : L.A.
Southern California aqueduct
Playing. "His master's voice" : the phonograph ; America's music : jazz ; A cry in the American night : blues ; Fender benders : the electric guitar ; Manufactured fun : the amusement park ; "Take me out to the ball game" : the Polo Grounds ; Wonders and atmospherics : the movie palaces ; It's older than you think : television ; From Pong to Xbox : the video game ; Fooling the mind : the virtual environment
Inventing a nation : America.