1x01 Revolutions
Discover how the steam engine led to safety matches, imitation diamonds and the moon in a wild ride.
1x02 Sentimental Journeys
What has Freud got to do with maps? Or prison reform with blue dye? Or the inside of a star with the Himalayas? India reveals the answers.
1x03 Getting It Together
Start by examining a SWAT team, which leads to hot air ballooning, the root of many inventions.
1x04 Whodunit?
Who stole a set of billiard balls in 1902 and why was he the most famous crook in history? The clues: maps from 1775, Charles Darwin's cousin and the FBI.
1x05 Something For Nothing
Something impossible happened 400 years ago. And we wound up in outer space, thanks (en route) to pigeon lovers, the Pope, and electric Italian frogs.
1x06 Echoes Of The Past
On his way to finding the secret of the universe, Burke takes us to the Buddhist tea ceremony, ties it to international spies and Lincoln's assassination.
1x07 Photo Finish
The Le Mans 24-hour race is the backdrop for linking photography and bullets, relativity and blimps.
1x08 Seperate Ways
Two trails split over slavery in the 18th Century. One route leads to the Wild West and Brooklyn Bridge, the other coining money and TV. Both end with a threat to peace.
1x09 High Times
Unwrap a sandwich and you're on a path to World War II radar and Neo-Impressionist painters.
1x10 Déjà Vu
History repeats itself, when you know how to look. Pizzaro beats the Incas, the first stock market opens. The Queen of England salutes a Mexican beetle and Hitler's plans misfire.
1x11 New Harmony
Microscopic bugs inspired the novel "Frankenstein" which aided the birth of Socialism.
1x12 Hot Pickle
The connections between a cup of tea, opium dens, the London Zoo and a switch that releases bombs.
1x13 The Big Spin
The greatest medical accident in history starts a trail that leads to Helen of Troy, 17th Century flower-power, the invention of soda pop and earthquake detection.
1x14 Bright Ideas
A Baltimore man invented the bottle cap, which led to razors and clock springs, and the Hubble telescope.
1x15 Making Waves
Hairdressers, Gold Rush miners, Irish potato farmers and English parliamentarians are really tied together.
1x16 Routes
A sick lawyer in 18th Century France changes farming and triggers the French Revolution and new medical research.
1x17 One Word
One medieval word kicks off the investigation into different cultures with the same stories that ends in cultural anthropology.
1x18 Sign Here
Dutch piracy starts international law and French probability math, phonetics and Victorian séances.
1x19 Better Than The Real Thing
How the zipper started with technology Jefferson picked up in Paris during a row about Creation.
1x20 Flexible Response
Robin Hood starts us on a trail from medieval showbiz to land drainage, to the invention of decimals that end up in U.S. currency, thanks to the guy who started the Erie Canal.
