In 1901 construction was started on a tower in Long Island like no other. Designed to send transatlantic radio signals and provide power to nearby businesses without the use of copper lines, the 55 foot tower loomed ominously.  The dream of Nicola Tesla to provide free power with no lines by harnessing the ionosphere would be demonstrated with this project and backed by notable investors such as J. P. Morgan himself.

During the 1950's, the Coldwar between the US and the Soviets was well underway with much of the "battle" taking place in the Arctic. Operating in the Arctic posed unique problems for the US when it came to moving soldiers in and out. Ships could not be depended on to break through the ice, aircraft runways were hard to maintain, and the area was beyond the range of helicopters. The CIA enlisted the help of a creative inventor, who had a strangely unique solution: the skyhook.

The Chinese are responsible for some of the most prolific inventions in all of history. The aptly named Four Great Inventions of Ancient China: paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing have contributed a great deal to society. But other great innovations have come from China over the years. Some are surprising, some are odd, and some are just plain cool.

During the Second World War, the Germans possessed a tool that gave them a huge advantage over the Allied forces: the Enigma Machine. Although it was available commercially, its biggest adopters were the German Military. It allowed them to encrypt and decrypt communications much to the frustration of their enemies. Once the Allied forces figured out how to break the cipher, the messages they decrypted became known as Ultra intelligence.

The infinite monkey theorem revolves around the idea that a monkey hitting random keys on a typewriter (or in today's context, a keyboard) for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, usually defined as the complete works of William Shakespeare. Typing monkeys have made numerous appearances in media, from The Simpsons to A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, to a Bob Newhart stand up routine, giving them a notable position in pop culture.