The Re-Inventors
Armed with blow-torches and history books, Matt and Jeremy take on challenges from the solar crematorium to the Panjandrum to the Chinese rocket and everything in between, stacking yesterday's ideas against today's world to see how the designs hold up.
- 2007-2011
- 3 seasons
- Documentary
Armed with blow-torches and history books, Matt and Jeremy take on challenges from the solar crematorium to the Panjandrum to the Chinese rocket and everything in between, stacking yesterday's ideas against today's world to see how the designs hold up.
Season 1 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 2010
Episode 1
Flotation Suit
24 mins
It looks like a doghouse resting on a wet suit, but this 1916 invention could have saved countless lives lost at sea.
Episode 2
Head Parachute
Episode 3
Gun Helmet
24 mins
A steel helmet with an air-power-triggered gun welded to the top. What could possibly go wrong?
Episode 4
Syrian Torpedo
Fri, Oct 1, 2010 23 mins
Watch the Re-Inventors test a torpedo designed 500 years before the first self-propelled missile was even conceived.
Episode 5
Flying Car
24 mins
See if a little wishful thinking and a lot of hard pedaling can get a 19th Century flying invention off the ground.
Episode 6
Hydraulic Saw
Fri, Oct 1, 2010 23 mins
This invention was designed to run on waterpower instead of muscle, but testing it will take all of their strength.
Episode 7
Wind Wagon
Fri, Oct 1, 2010 23 mins
See what happens when the Re-Inventors attempt to get an ancient troop transport wagon into fighting shape.
Episode 8
Monowheel
24 mins
Can Matt and Jeremy get this bizarre one-wheeled bike in gear, or will they need to put the brakes on the whole thing?
Episode 10
Windmill
Episode 11
Flying Machine
23 mins
As man approached the 20th Century, the race for the skies captivated the imagination of inventors everywhere and all kinds of bizarre flying machines were conjured up. Included in the mix was a pedal-powered ancestor to the helicopter, patented a decade before the Wright Brothers first conquered the skies. By all indications, it was never built or tested, but if this anonymously designed machine can actually lift off, it would be a history-making moment. Join Re-Inventors Matt and Jeremy as they take this chopper on a test flight.
Episode 12
Pedestrian Protector
Mon, Nov 1, 2010 23 mins
By the 1930s, more cars hit the road... and more pedestrians got hit by them. Our hosts put one old solution to the test.
Episode 13
Aerosan
Mon, Nov 1, 2010 23 mins
Our hosts test how this Soviet winter troop transport vehicle would survive against Russian weather and artillery fire.
Episode 14
Ice Boat
Mon, Nov 1, 2010 23 mins
Is this 1940s iceboat winter-ready or skating on thin ice? The Re-Inventors bundle up to find out.
Episode 15