Early College - Valparaiso

Our modern electric power grid has been called the biggest and most complex machine in the world—delivering electricity over 200,000 miles of high-tension transmission lines. Travel around the country with host Yul Kwon to understand its intricacies, its vulnerabilities, and the remarkable ingenuity required to keep the electricity on every day of the year.

Everything that we do to move, live, work, play, create, and survive, is sustained by spinning a wheel. Whether engines in our cars, or whirling turbines generators in a power plant, spinning the wheels of civilization requires fuel. Learn about the new generation of power sources.

From Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla to Enrico Fermi and Albert Einstein, the world's greatest minds have enabled mankind to acquire light, heat, and power with a simple flip of switch.

In the first episode, the team tell the story of the handful of extraordinary inventors and inventions who helped build the modern world by understanding, harnessing, and using power. In the first episode, the team tell the story of the handful of extraordinary inventors and inventions who helped build the modern world by understanding, harnessing, and using power.