THE THINGS UNDERNEATH
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THE THINGS UNDERNEATH Book 1
4 parts · 16 h 45 min
The United States, 1849 to 1916. Four men build the networks the country afterward forgets it is standing on. Cornelius Vanderbilt moves from harbor ferries to ocean routes to the trunk line into New York. Jay Gould takes the railroads apart from the inside and buys the wires that price them. James J.
THE THINGS UNDERNEATH Book 2
4 parts · 16 h 57 min
The United States, 1878 to 1935. Electricity begins as a product sold by the lamp and ends as a service sold by the kilowatt-hour, delivered by companies granted a local monopoly and told in return what they may charge. Thomas Edison designs the whole system rather than the bulb.
THE THINGS UNDERNEATH Book 3
4 parts · 15 h 47 min
The United States, 1907 to 2001. Three men decide, separately, that the expensive part of moving something is not the moving. Jim Casey starts a messenger service in a Seattle basement at nineteen and spends fifty years turning a bicycle errand into a delivery network nobody notices.
THE THINGS UNDERNEATH Book 4
4 parts · 15 h 23 min
The United States, 1958 to 2021. A credit card begins as a piece of paper a single bank mails unasked to strangers in Fresno and ends as a message crossing four institutions in under two seconds.
THE THINGS UNDERNEATH Book 5
4 parts · 16 h 50 min
A single physical idea runs from a Boston attic in 1876 to a warehouse in Ottawa in 2004: a line that ends inside somebody's house, and the long argument over who owns it, who may use it, and what it is allowed to carry. Alexander Graham Bell sells a patent nobody can price.
THE THINGS UNDERNEATH Book 6
4 parts · 13 h 12 min
Seven Americans set out, between 2009 and 2019, to replace pieces of infrastructure that already exist and already work: the cement in every foundation, the anode in every battery, the heat under every city, the boiler in every walk-up, the airplane, the truck, the storage the grid does not have.