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American Entrepreneurial Genius

American Entrepreneurial Genius is a remarkable 14 program series that explores the 400-year-old history of America's incomparable entrepreneurial spirit that shaped and advanced the country from the first settlement in Jamestown, to the globally dominant tech industry of the 21st century.
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Streaming License includes all individual programs listed below, as well as downloadable supplemental files.
ENT $385.00/yr
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Program 1: 1607-1789
1607 - Jamestown, England's First Successful American Colony 1713 - Captain Andrew Robinson Designs and Constructs a Schooner 1732 - America Initiates Road Infrastructure 1750 - German Entrepreneurs Invent the Conestoga Wagon and Flatboat 1750 - America Establishes Industrial Base, Paving the Way to Independence 1777 - Mary Katherine Goddard Publishes the Declaration of Independence 1789 - Alexander Hamilton Shapes America's Modern Industrial Economy
ENT-001 $27.50/yr
Program 2: 1790 - 1825
1790 - Samuel Slater, Father of the American Industrial Revolution 1794 - Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton Gin 1807 - Robert Fulton Awakens the World to the Steamboat 1808 - John Jacob Astor Founds the American Fur Company 1823 - Chinese Entrepreneur Hung Tai Introduces Sugar Mills to Hawaii 1825 - Erie Canal is Completed
ENT-002 $27.50/yr
Program 3: 1826 - 1850
1831 - Cyrus McCormick Operates His Mechanical Reaper 1834 - The Refrigerator: An American Entrepreneurial Story 1836 - Samuel Colt Patents Five Shot Revolver 1837 - John Deere Invents the First Self-scouring Steel Plow 1844 - Samuel F. B. Morse Demonstrates the Telegraph 1850 - Expressmen: Butterfield, Wells and Fargo
ENT-003 $27.50/yr
Program 4: 1851 - 1872
1851 - Isaac Singer Markets His Sewing Machine 1857 - Gail Borden's Condensed Milk 1869 - Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad 1870 - Rockefeller Incorporates Standard Oil Co. of Ohio 1872 - Aaron Montgomery Ward Starts Catalog Business
ENT-004 $27.50/yr
Program 5: 1872 - 1888
1872 - Andrew Carnegie, Father of the American Steel Industry 1873 - Levi Strauss Patents Blue Jeans 1876 - Henry Heinz and the Rise of Product Branding 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell Demonstrates the Telephone 1880 - George Eastman Patents Kodak Roll Film 1888 - Lue Gim Gong, Father of the Florida Citrus Industry
ENT-005 $27.50/yr
Program 6: 1889 - 1903
1889 - Thomas Edison Establishes General Electric 1893 - Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse Electrify the World 1893 - Railroad Magnates Connect the U.S. 1902 - Willis Carrier Invents Modern Air Conditioning 1903 - Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk
ENT-006 $27.50/yr
Program 7: 1904 - 1925
1908 - Ford Introduces the Model T 1917 - Boeing, Beech, Cessna and Stearman 1919 - Adolph Zukor and Louis B. Mayer Form Hollywood 1924 - George Washington Carver, Renaissance Man 1925 - Caterpillar Inc. Makes Its Debut in California
ENT-007 $27.50/yr
Program 8: 1926 - 1955
1926 - Goddard Initiates the Space Age 1927 - Juan Trippe's Pan Am Takes U.S. Aviation International 1938 - Chester Floyd Carlson Invents the Photocopy Machine 1947 - David Sarnoff, Father of American T.V. 1952 - Bill Daniels Pioneers American Cable Television 1955 - The McDonald Brothers and Ray Kroc
ENT-008 $27.50/yr
Program 9: 1955 - 1964
1955 - Disneyland, Destination Theme Park 1961 - Emilio Azc'arraga Brings Hispanic Television to the U.S. 1962 - Sam Walton Founds Walmart 1963 - Mary Kay Ash Launches Mary Kay Cosmetics 1964 - Thomas J. Watson Jr. Announces IBM's 360 Mainframe Computer
ENT-009 $27.50/yr
Program 10: 1965 - 1973
1967 - Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha 1969 - J. C. R. Licklider Brings the Internet into Existence 1971 - Nike, Founded by Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight 1972 - Allan Alcorn Initiates the Video Game Industry 1973 - Frederick Smith Begins Operating FedEx
ENT-010 $27.50/yr
Program 11: 1974 - 1986
1975 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen Found Microsoft 1976 - Sol Price's Warehouse Store 1980 -Ted Turner Launches CNN 1983 - Andrew and Peggy Cherng Found Panda Express 1986 - Oprah Winfre, Entertainment Mogul
ENT-011 $27.50/yr
Program 12: 1987 - 1997
1987 - Howard Schultz Acquires Starbucks 1991 - Robert L. Johnson Goes Public with Black Entertainment Network 1991 - John Sie, Founder of Movie Channels Encore & Starz 1994 - Jerry Yang Co-founds Yahoo! 1995 - Jeff Bezos Opens Amazon for Business 1997 - Pierre Omidyar Changes His Company's Name to eBay
ENT-012 $27.50/yr
Program 13: 1998 - 2004
1998 - Pleasant Rowland Sells the American Girl Company 2001 - Steve Jobs Debuts the iPod 2003 - Jewish American Mark Zuckerberg Launches Facebook 2004 - Google Redefines the Internet
ENT-013 $27.50/yr
Program 14: 2005 - Present
2005 - YouTube's Video Sharing Democratizes Traditional Media 2008 - Elon Musk Takes Over Tesla Motors 2013 - Netflix's Reed Hastings Produces House of Cards 2015 - Jack Dorsey is Renamed CEO of Twitter 2015 - Economic Disruptors: Wikipedia and Craigslist
ENT-014 $27.50/yr