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The Re-Inventors (2007) | ecco
The Re-Inventors
3
Seasons
2007
Canada
6.2
Two persons test historical inventions and designs with blowtorches and reference books, comparing past innovations to modern standards to evaluate their effectiveness.
Episode List
S1 • E1
Flotation Suit
It looks like a doghouse resting on a wet suit, but this 1916 invention could have saved countless lives lost at sea.
S1 • E2
Head Parachute
S1 • E3
Gun Helmet
A steel helmet with an air-power-triggered gun welded to the top. What could possibly go wrong?
S1 • E4
Syrian Torpedo
Watch the Re-Inventors test a torpedo designed 500 years before the first self-propelled missile was even conceived.
S1 • E5
Flying Car
See if a little wishful thinking and a lot of hard pedaling can get a 19th Century flying invention off the ground.
S1 • E6
Hydraulic Saw
This invention was designed to run on waterpower instead of muscle, but testing it will take all of their strength.
S1 • E7
Wind Wagon
See what happens when the Re-Inventors attempt to get an ancient troop transport wagon into fighting shape.
S1 • E8
Monowheel
Can Matt and Jeremy get this bizarre one-wheeled bike in gear, or will they need to put the brakes on the whole thing?
S1 • E10
Windmill
S1 • E11
Flying Machine
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.
S1 • E12
Pedestrian Protector
By the 1930s, more cars hit the road... and more pedestrians got hit by them. Our hosts put one old solution to the test.
S1 • E13
Aerosan
Our hosts test how this Soviet winter troop transport vehicle would survive against Russian weather and artillery fire.
S1 • E14
Ice Boat
Is this 1940s iceboat winter-ready or skating on thin ice? The Re-Inventors bundle up to find out.