Narrated by newspaper columnist Tom Baker, this educational video from Goldhil Home Media International explores inventions and innovations by Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone) and Henry Ford (mass production of automobiles) that laid the foundation for today's modern society. The program also covers the development of robotics and computers, and explains how various discoveries and inventions by visionary people meshed to produce modern American society's vast communications network and system of travel. ~ Steve Blackburn, Rovi