The Machines That Built America

As a retired Bell employee, I was excited to watch Ep5 Telephone Wars. However, I found the background music quite annoying. I even turned off my audio sound system. The background music was still annoying and a distraction to the story.

Those of you who said "well done" should be embarrassed. This is entertaining, at best. It's on the level of a fictional movie like Batman and Robbin. As a documentary, it very well may be a series full of lazy information gathering and lack luster fact finding.

I should clarify, I'm not sure if this documentary is wrong or if its The Titans That Built America that is wrong but, the two documentaries have completely opposite facts about Henry Ford and airplanes.

This "documentary" describes Henry Ford as a pioneer in air travel. A man who is a driving force in the development of airplanes.

In The Titans That Built America, Henry Ford is completely against the idea of airplanes and is at odds with his son Edsel Ford who uses Ford money, power and ingenuity to help develop air travel. Edsel wanted his legacy to be in air travel while his father, Henry Ford, felt it was a waste of time and money.

I use quotes when I say "documentary" because this is labeled as a documentary but a documentary is supposed to present official facts. This "documentary" makes me question its' creditability all together.

I decided to do a little quick research to see if the same people wrote and produced the two documentaries but I couldn't find that information for this series which leads me to believe that it was written and produced by some 6th graders in their moms basement. I'm comfortable with my conclusion that the producers of The Titans That Built American did their research.

I'm only in episode 2 of this series and I'm pretty sure that everything else that they tell me is going to be based on lazy, ill-informed "fact" finding. Complete garbage!

The idea of TV belongs to Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes. Accept this fact and make it easy)

If you call yourself "The History Channel", know your history. There were probably lots of futuristic displays when Bill Boeing attended the 1910 International Air Meet, but a 50 star U. S. flag was not one of them.

The episodes present famous figures as "changing the world" ignoring almost 99% of the facts and history of these inventions.

One episode presents Henry Ford as coming up with the idea of a Tractor (engine), despite this being used for almost 50 years in the UK before he was born.