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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 | ||
| Individual Programs | SKU | Term | Price | |
| 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 | ||