My Million Dollar Invention
Behind many million-dollar inventions are priceless stories of inspiration, controversy, triumph, and tragedy. Explore inventions large and small, lifesaving and life-taking, scary and playful, and meet the men and women who dedicated, and often risked, their lives to follow their vision and ultimately change the world.
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1.Shock and Awe
14-06-2015How the electric chair, the Ouija board, and other chilling ideas became million-dollar inventions.
2.The Vision Thing
21-06-2015See how the TV, speed camera, photocopier, and space telescope went from sketch drawings to life-altering inventions.
3.Criminal Riches
28-06-2015See how crime made lucrative inventions out of the house alarm, the cash register, the Tommy Gun, and even the toothbrush.
4.Danger Magnets
05-07-2015Would you inhale toxins, leap off a cliff, or shoot yourself to prove you're right? Meet four inventors who did just that.
5.Need for Speed
12-07-2015How did a waffle iron change the world of running shoes forever? Find out this and other invention secrets.
6.Life and Death
19-07-2015The story of the gun meant to end violence, the box that keeps hearts beating, and the printer that can build anything.
7.Guns and Goldmines
26-07-2015They walked through fires, faced poverty, ran for their lives, and found their fortune in gold, guns and games.
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8.The Little Guy
02-08-2015Intermittent wipers, Lego bricks, and the smiley face came from the minds of ordinary people with extraordinary stories.
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