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Cars That Made the World
History · 2020
Last aired: S1 E4, Winning the World Over · 2020-12-19
Inventions by their nature have an impact on the world, few more so than the development of the internal combustion engine and the car.
Season 1
E1
Fueling Invention
2020-11-28 · 60 min
Frustrated by the limitations of transport, rival engineers Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler set out to liberate humanity from their dependence on the horse.
E2
Create a Market, Build an Empire
2020-12-05 · 60 min
As early car-makers gained traction with their inventions, the outbreak of the First World War One catapulted the industry into a new era of competition.
E3
Motorise the Masses
2020-12-12 · 60 min
As the roaring twenties brought cars to the masses in America, Europe lagged far behind, and Japan struggled to modernise. Changes came with the Second World War.
E4
Winning the World Over
2020-12-19 · 60 min
In the 1950s America entered a golden age of car design, while German and Japanese car makers struggled to recover from the Second World War.
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Kieran O'Brien
Narrator