How We Invented the World: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

How We Invented the World is the ultimate action-packed, hi-energy, landmark series that examines the four inventions that define the modern world - mobiles, cars, planes, and skyscrapers -celebrating the people and connections that made them possible. Each playing a crucial role in where we are now in the 21st Century - able to travel the globe, to talk to one another at any time at the push of a button, to live in huge cities, to commute, to capture the world we live in, making the fantasies we create come to life. This four-part series lifts the lid on how these iconic inventions came to be. Showcasing the people who have shaped our lives in ways that they could have never imagined or anticipated, this series reveals stories of human ingenuity, extraordinary connections, unprecedented experimentation and jaw-dropping accidents that created the world as we know it.

Series details

• Title: How We Invented the World
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2012-11-05
• Final broadcast date listed: 2012-12-03
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Discovery
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 5864
• IMDb ID: tt2096034
• TVDB ID: 263905

Cast and credited roles

• Mike Rowe — Narrator
• Dermot Brogan — Wilbur Wright
• Matt Newman — John Dunlop
• Adam Neill — Spike O'Donnell
• Aubrey Shelton — William Lemessurier
• Leon Clingman — William Jenney

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2012-11-05; final listed air date 2012-12-03.

Source and licence

Adapted from How We Invented the World on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.