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and mankind's great stripes

amidst the chaos have an unforgiving plan most species

for but for one all the pieces will fall into place

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this is our story the story all

Richmond Virginia April 1865

the climax of the American Civil War Union troops close in on the Confederate

camp

but the Confederates decide not to defend their city

their plans the vacuum regroup

keep fighting

the orders past two young soldiers

Captain William hare adjutant

Lyndon Kan

without knowing it

will help bring the war to side noon

the American Civil War

the bloodiest war

West 600,000 Americans

day more than world wars one

into combine but in modern

the key to the success

mankind this mass production

wars are now won by harnessing the power industry

giving the Union a massive the game

four out of five factories are in the north making twenty five times more

weapons

six times more ammunition

many southerners still living room

based on Form crush

by the industrial might have the North are on the brink of defeat

Richmond

their last game a band

pairing in Kent are meant to burn the South's most valued commodity

tobacco

and to destroy food and supplies anything that could be abused to Union

troops

we sing

I was just fighting to protect this CD

and now you want me to burn it to the ground

or you win same

the shock in them the want this idea

must have been the most terrible thing in the world and then the question calms

to your followers and burn which have defended

want do you let it be

really gonna do this

the Confederates wanna destroy the warehouse

me Richmond time ready for their return home

richmond's Hans home as long as

Richmond exists so has the comparison

fire spreads out of control

them a thousand buildings burn

munition dumps explode

the Confederates leeway to their own said

its apocalyptic that's the only way to describe it

the Confederates are leaving a capital ablaze a capital

ruin a nineteen-year in ruin a political system

in ruin it's the end six days later

the South surrenders

the world's first industrial war p.m.

now demand machines that fought the war

fight for a new cord prop

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explosions technology

man the Toolman charge into the modern age

period immediately following the Civil War was curiously enough time

enormous optimism a time when people Bracey idea progress like they'd never

done before people believe that everything can be done

faster bigger

venom

every other day there'd be a newspaper article about some new

extraordinary invention some new technology

some new breakthrough that was just on the cart

in the US alone 400,000 patents

in 40 years new inventions

mass-produced

identical parts made Sep put together

on the assembly high-volume

low cost

around the world a chain reaction and

industry expand seven hundred percent

but mass production sweeps through North America and Europe

then spreads East to Asia Japan

by

for two hundred years cut off from the rest of the world

by

a medieval way of life isolated from Western progress

the me

but even here change

is coming home a barber shop

in old Tokyo

one man will help launch Japan

into the modern age do was sake arturo

visionary

reformer sama and

determined to embrace the future home

will cut times to the past and

the samurai have ruled Japan

for six hundred years ok

a warrior class

live and died by the sword

during the several hundred years

that Japan shut its doors to the world

coal to the samurai was

elevated to this mystical status

and that the hard to beat the worship

of the sort

the so love every warrior

in his sword

made from hammered steel

30 2009 each

a hundred thousand have an inch thick sharp enough to slice through five human

bodies

at a time

it

but the samurai's ancient feudal cold keeps Japan

living in the past

well

whose sake from an old samurai family

I'm on

the reject the old order by removing his top

on on

on

traditionally cut off in defeat on

and active humiliation

for your sake its liberation

he enters the barbershop a shamrock

he leaves an entrepreneur

18 18th hole was sake ransom old shipyard

base for his comp Mitsubishi

the expertise that made source

make ships

from steel

an iron and carbon how lawyers home to over centuries

steel is a man-made Superman

up to ten times stronger than pure on

today reuse 1.3 billion tonnes

every year

enough to build the Empire State Building 20

thou's time

there was sake recruits Western experts

to learn the secrets modern industry by blasting

oxygen through a gun possible to make steel

ten times faster

just over a century Mitsubishi becomes the world's largest corporation

building ships planes and card

Asia's first industrial nation develops faster than

any country on

Japan learns in a decade with the west

developed in this century

today it's the planet's third richest nation

6,000 miles away Belfast

higher

workers build a giant steel structure

monument to the ambition of GA

2000

play

three million river

900

long forty-six thousand times

largest moving object on the plane

on Cinco

well

April 14

1912

RMS Titanic

bound for New York

mankind put space technology

on board on Morse code message system

wireless Telegraph

operator Jack Phillips

25 years old a communications expert

he'll play a part in mankind's most famous disaster

9:40 p.m. warning from steamship receiver

eight miles ahead so much

lead the pack ice and a great number of large icebergs

also field ice whether good clear

an invisible message sent

the speed of light

on radio way been produced by stars and planets from

billions a year lemme now

physicists use electric currents to produce them it will

Morse code %uh

her once we communicated face to face

now we can send messages across the plan

on board the Titanic

1,316 passenger

more than half crammed into the first class cabins

year

3 trailed

men like Theodore Dhamaal a peasant farmer dreaming up a new life in a new

world

he left his wife and children in Europe

is taken the equivalent

years income

you may see my humans is we're never satisfied word incredible risk takers

were always exploring

no matter how good life is there's always some

effort to see did was pass the next mountain around the next corner

with mass production comes mass transportation

steamships power the greatest migration in human history

over half a century

one in 20 people on the planet emigre

the most popular destination across the Atlantic

America a hundred ships a week arrive in New York just

26 million people migrate the USA

they were leaving now I'm problem with very little money in their pocket

just a dream a dream that they could

come to America and start their lives over and make something of themselves

and maybe

Sunday become one of those rich people I

in first class

them 11:40 p.m.

well passengers sleep

Jack Phillips is busy sending personal messages for those in first class

the iceberg morning doesn't reach the bridge

biggest ship on earth is at twenty two and a half nonce

nearly full speed

this sales at speeds that it should have been traveling at and it's going through

really a minefield naturally made mine field allies mountain-sized

friendship full stop shit

up

up

third class cabins blood for

ok

the iceberg tears rivets of steel plates in the whole

opening six gas

new international distressing eso wealth

SOS SOS Titanic applies immediate assistance

coming months we struck an iceberg sinking

10 miles away

another shift the California close enough to save lives

but its wireless operator turned off to telegraphed

and went to sleep 15 minutes earlier

6 supposedly watertight compartments 1

more than 10 million gallons water pour into the tight end

way

to reach the lifeboats third-class passengers must pass through 1st and 2nd

class

but the doors are locked

another you were trapped there because you're poor

that's when here would have combined probably with rage

less than half of those on board

will make it to me

all

the new

april the fifteenth 1912

to 28 a.m.

to win three quarter hours after hitting an iceberg

my Titanic the unsinkable sheehan's

sinks man's me

I'm

going

third-class passengers feared order moulder

clings to the wreckage

waters fatally call three degrees below freezing

ok he could die of hypothermia

just 15 min

up up

by moulder is one of the lucky ones

bump

three days later he arrives in New York he will go on to land a job at the Ford

factory in Detroit

a classic immigrant's tale and

1,503 passengers and crew

never reach New York and

when the Titanic hit an iceberg

it set off a great period a reexamination

our faith in technology and I don't take we've ever had quite the same

optimism or trust that technology

always serves our interest and

up

in New York City one of nature's wonders is about to be ten

inventor Charles Goodyear

determine obsessed and broke

from a tenement kitchen

help kick-start transport revolution

Native Americans in the Amazon have used for centuries

extracting a white sock from trees

they call it coucou robbed

rubber is one of the most

under-appreciated miracles nature

it's up there with Colin Steele

wrong it's become this have secret jus

that's allowed us to expand beyond our limits am

in its raw state robber isn't very useful

it melts when hot

cracks when cold

goodyear tries to change its chemical structure cool

to make it more resilient and more useful

me

good years one of those interesting kind of eccentrics in america

are that's absolutely dogged by overdosing why dr. for five years

not his debts consigning him to jail

his family relies on hand out but good year

believes he's divinely inspired and

there's no objects so desirable so important and so necessary to the human

race

as making rubber available for man's use

then

a breakthrough the ants of

the

the result material tough like leather

but flexible

ok

ok he calls the process balkanization

after the Roman god of fire

ok he lost his fortune several times went bankrupt a number times but never

gave up on the idea

this is something that will change the world and he was

absolutely right almost every machine in the industrial revolution

relies on rubber fittings see you to withstand the pressure

steam

hundreds of parts in a Model T Ford are made

freeing mankind travel farther and faster than ever before

man for Robert spiral

6,000 miles from good years 10

Africa one of the world's great sources

%uh natural resource

the Congo 900,000 square miles

over two billion rubber plans the

good under brutal colonial rule

mmm the heart darn

the but one man will make a stand

and change Africa spam and Sala

rubber tapper husband

family meant I'm

hours Harris

the activist

reformer and

baptist missionary from Britain mall

and solid doesn't know her I'll but has no roads to turn

he wants the world to know when he's carrying

my me

somebody Mosswood well going on

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them

them

the severed hand in force to his daughter

im the previous day's bill which was attacked under his wife

daughters slaughter 11 commitment to helping

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for nineteen use

Belgium's King Leopold is run congo

missus own private to stay and

millions forced to tap from

profits line his mom

since there is nobody looking over his shoulder

he exported and exploded

people as well almost anything could happen

and anything did and production

when workers don't make their quota should calm

am a whip made from hippopotamus on

I'll 10 million Congolese done

in 15 years leopold through and Africa genocide

I'll

that one hand Alice Harris will expose the brutality of Leopold's regime

shift world opinion

photograph that will change mankind I'm

Baringo province

northeastern Congo

a land controlled by Belgium's King Leopold

British missionary Alice Harris

will harness the power of mass communication

to reveal the terrible truth little

these good on when these catalog

ok horror our mothers bothers

sisters brothers beat

and murder wrong

no matter how hard we work summer

every day we suffer

my home of

it's a story reputed through the ages colonial forces attacked native

populations

and plunder planets riches

atrocities committed far from prying eyes

Harris

wants to change that

she'll tell the world what is happening in the Congo

the children are routinely maimed as a warning to villagers

her weapon the camera

for the first time mankind can capture

images of our world reproduce use

and share them the first cameras weigh 210 pounds E

the moon's

by 1900 their smaller portable

in the hands of 2 million a rhythm

home

the invention of photography and the means to get them in front of people

on held more power than its inventors

ever dreamed

photos don't blink and they don't go away

and once you've seen that image

you can rewind

Paris takes hundreds of photos in the compound

and they're published in newspapers across the world

shocking millions readers and

including marked wind

if only we could bring home that picture to the minds of the american people

how he would rise to destroy that peach

trafficking sheep flash and

Twain joins the Congo Reform Association

to campaign against the atrocities and

he writes pamphlets illustrated with Harrison's photographs

and

just one look at what had happened to these people in the Congo

from these photographs you took with able to communicate

so broadly and so horrifically

that it transformed world opinion

and it changed aside

the campaign forces King Leopold to quit the Congo

me and the Robert rail

mass media a new power

in a modern world key to illuminating the planet's darkest corners

the expression a picture's worth a thousand words

that's a low-ball estimate a picture

all a good picture is worth so much more than

well in Africa

people challenge colonial rule in Europe

the great powers are at war mass production means new weapons

more lethal than ever

howitzer shoots 2000 on shelves

over 10 miles the machine gun

buyers 500 rounds per minute

time

forty time metal horse

in world war 1 eight and a half million people died

but a third of those deaths

are not from man-made work

there from seems good this and a jewel

tussle between microbes unmanned

cool when this war has been in Invisible War we don't see them they're too small

but collectively they applied intelligent and quite crafty

now one man wages war on bacterial

it stay millions have lives

World War one

northern friend life expectancy on the front line

six weeks

I'm but from the worst of times

comes the best mankind

Alexander Fleming

a Scottish army doctor

commended for bravery and

neither surgeon or madam but a new kind of doctor

home a bacteriologist

on a quest to treat not the symptoms of the disease

up but its root cause

home

it was through his actually obsessive need to understand what was happening is

laboratory

that he wandered into the players the danes ever among humans scientists

Fleming sees thousands die needlessly

and not from bullets and shrapnel

but from wounds infected by bacteria

up

100 trillion bacteria inhabit the human body ten times the number of human cell

microorganisms that feed on living tissue

most or harms but a few species release toxins

cripple the immune system and spread disease

hey held

bacteria have killed more people than all the wars in history

combining

in

by world war 1 doctors realize there's a link between bacteria

and disease can't stop infection spread

by

the tried and tested cure

cut away to issue Dowsett in an asap

parabolic ask but a deadly trade ok

the acid disinfects wuz but also

attacks white blood cells the body's natural defense

against bacteria

up

imagine be at the side of the soldier

with a small flesh wound easily treatable yet watching the

gangrene climb up the leg I'll

most did not survive very survivable rules

because the resulting infections and

slamming face to face with the enemy

he knows bacteria killing millions

now he begins a 10-year battle to stop them

I was consumed by a desire to discover

after all this struggling something which will kills microbes

your

your London 1928

the war is over and slamming is a civilian doctor

working in a hospital laboratory testing samples have infected tissue

0

and after so many dedans the altman chance discovery

a sample left open for two weeks

is contaminated

inside a fungus is growing producing a substance

which stops bacteria in their tracks instead of multiply

microbes rupture and I'm 0

them not substance penicillin

when I woke up just after dawn didn't plan to revolutionize own medicine

burnt suppose that's exactly what I've done

within 15 years

penicillin saves one million lives a year

a miracle drug the world's first antibiotic

today we make 45,000 tonnes a bit

every year

imagine a world before antibiotics before flames invention

a world where moms feared for their child lives because so many were lost

one other every three people could who may push right down see my face

would be dead to wasn't for the antibiotics

that bombing first invented medicine for millions

in a world shaped by mass production

from the first industrial more mankind exploded into the modern world

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life-and-death unprecedented scale and speed

but now we have the power to literary

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for change forever

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