
Chronicling the trades and commodities that made America an industrial power: coal, shipbuilding, brewing, textiles and steel. Also: profiles of magnates such as Andrew Carnegie and Henry Kaiser.
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Air Date: 2001-06-25
A look at the history of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola and the rivalry between the two soft-drink companies. Included: com...
Air Date: 2001-07-02
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Air Date: 2001-07-09
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Air Date: 2001-07-16
The history of the Du Pont family is chronicled from their beginnings as gunpowder manufacturers at the turn of the 1...
Air Date: 2001-07-23
Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel chronicles the rise of the iron and steel industries in the United States and th...
Air Date: 2001-07-30
He single-handedly saved the U.S. from bankruptcy on two occasions, but was often accused of being a monopolist. He w...
Air Date: 2001-08-06
They may have collaborated on the cornflake, but the Kellogg brothers could not have been less alike. One was an ecce...
Air Date: 2001-08-13
Modern America depends on a steady source of petroleum and petroleum by-products to satisfy its ever-increasing and v...
Air Date: 2001-08-20
Brewing grows from a mainly local endeavor into a commercial industry in the 19th century and survives crises in the ...
Air Date: 2001-08-27
Flight was born in America at the turn of the century. But World War II saw more planes built in a single year -- 300...