MY MILLION DOLLAR INVENTION: SHOCK & AWE - Premiere: Sunday, June 14 at 8 p.m. ET/PT - Rollercoaster, Sandusky Ohio from My Million Dollar Invention: Shock & Awe. - The series kicks off with the stories of four men whose inventions shocked the world: the Ouija Board, dynamite, the electric chair and roller coasters. "Talking Boards" were an uncanny pastime that gripped a mourning nation after the Civil War, until a Baltimore fertilizer salesman named Charles Kennard devised a way to mass market the idea of communicating with the "other side." Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, spurred by the death of his brother to find a safer, less volatile explosive, ushered in the industrial age of mining and railroads with the invention of dynamite. The electric chair is borne out of a hanging gone wrong and the need for a humane execution method, and involves a much larger story of two great rivals and innovation giants--Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse -- and their competition over whose electrical system would power America, AC or DC. The thrill of rollercoasters was brought to us in the 1880s by a religious underwear manufacturer, LaMarcus Thompson, who was looking to give people wholesome entertainment. - Photo: Courtesy of Smithsonian Channel Copyright: 2015 - Million_Dollar_Invention/SmithsonianChannel_MDI_SA_23
MY MILLION DOLLAR INVENTION: SHOCK & AWE - Premiere: Sunday, June 14 at 8 p.m. ET/PT - Paul Worsey with Dynamite Stick from My Million Dollar Invention: Shock & Awe. - The series kicks off with the stories of four men whose inventions shocked the world: the Ouija Board, dynamite, the electric chair and roller coasters. "Talking Boards" were an uncanny pastime that gripped a mourning nation after the Civil War, until a Baltimore fertilizer salesman named Charles Kennard devised a way to mass market the idea of communicating with the "other side." Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, spurred by the death of his brother to find a safer, less volatile explosive, ushered in the industrial age of mining and railroads with the invention of dynamite. The electric chair is borne out of a hanging gone wrong and the need for a humane execution method, and involves a much larger story of two great rivals and innovation giants--Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse -- and their competition over whose electrical system would power America, AC or DC. The thrill of rollercoasters was brought to us in the 1880s by a religious underwear manufacturer, LaMarcus Thompson, who was looking to give people wholesome entertainment. - Photo: Courtesy of Smithsonian Channel Copyright: 2015 - Million_Dollar_Invention/SmithsonianChannel_MDI_SA_20
MY MILLION DOLLAR INVENTION: SHOCK & AWE - Premiere: Sunday, June 14 at 8 p.m. ET/PT - Ouija In Use by Sipei Benson (Elijah Bond) from My Million Dollar Invention: Shock & Awe. - The series kicks off with the stories of four men whose inventions shocked the world: the Ouija Board, dynamite, the electric chair and roller coasters. "Talking Boards" were an uncanny pastime that gripped a mourning nation after the Civil War, until a Baltimore fertilizer salesman named Charles Kennard devised a way to mass market the idea of communicating with the "other side." Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, spurred by the death of his brother to find a safer, less volatile explosive, ushered in the industrial age of mining and railroads with the invention of dynamite. The electric chair is borne out of a hanging gone wrong and the need for a humane execution method, and involves a much larger story of two great rivals and innovation giants--Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse -- and their competition over whose electrical system would power America, AC or DC. The thrill of rollercoasters was brought to us in the 1880s by a religious underwear manufacturer, LaMarcus Thompson, who was looking to give people wholesome entertainment. - Photo: Courtesy of Smithsonian Channel Copyright: 2015 - Million_Dollar_Invention/SmithsonianChannel_MDI_SA_18
MY MILLION DOLLAR INVENTION: SHOCK & AWE - Premiere: Sunday, June 14 at 8 p.m. ET/PT - Electric Chair Shadows from My Million Dollar Invention: Shock & Awe. - The series kicks off with the stories of four men whose inventions shocked the world: the Ouija Board, dynamite, the electric chair and roller coasters. "Talking Boards" were an uncanny pastime that gripped a mourning nation after the Civil War, until a Baltimore fertilizer salesman named Charles Kennard devised a way to mass market the idea of communicating with the "other side." Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, spurred by the death of his brother to find a safer, less volatile explosive, ushered in the industrial age of mining and railroads with the invention of dynamite. The electric chair is borne out of a hanging gone wrong and the need for a humane execution method, and involves a much larger story of two great rivals and innovation giants--Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse -- and their competition over whose electrical system would power America, AC or DC. The thrill of rollercoasters was brought to us in the 1880s by a religious underwear manufacturer, LaMarcus Thompson, who was looking to give people wholesome entertainment. - Photo: Courtesy of Smithsonian Channel Copyright: 2015 - SmithsonianChannel_MDI_SA_09
