THE YEARS BEFORE ANYONE NOTICED
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THE YEARS BEFORE ANYONE NOTICED Book 1
4 parts · 13 h 50 min
Connecticut and New Mexico, 1800 to 1945. Charles Goodyear spent the better part of three decades boiling gum elastic on his wife's kitchen stove, in and out of debtors' prison, and died owing money on a material that would make other men rich.
THE YEARS BEFORE ANYONE NOTICED Book 2
4 parts · 16 h 4 min
Wiltshire, Oregon and Skåne, 1970 to 2003. Three men build the same object over and over before anyone will buy one. James Dyson makes five thousand one hundred and twenty-seven test rigs of a bagless vacuum cleaner and is refused by every manufacturer he approaches.
THE YEARS BEFORE ANYONE NOTICED Book 3
4 parts · 16 h 44 min
Utah, Long Island, Marin County, Manhattan Beach and north London, 1969 to 2000. Three men spend between five and twenty-one years making moving images nobody has asked for. Ed Catmull works through four institutions and three wealthy patrons before a computer can draw a character an audience will sit still for.
THE YEARS BEFORE ANYONE NOTICED Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 32 min
Queens, Alba, Smaland and Ginza, 1908 to 2007. Four people stay put for decades. Estee Lauder sells face cream from a beauty shop and then from one department store counter for twenty-four years before a perfume makes her name.
THE YEARS BEFORE ANYONE NOTICED Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 39 min
California, Michigan, Florida and Washington State, 1974 to 2022. Five American businesses that took years to become anybody's whole job. Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor buy a failing guitar shop in 1974 and eight years later have barely grown.
THE YEARS BEFORE ANYONE NOTICED Book 6
4 parts · 14 h 54 min
Baton Rouge, Brooklyn, Washington and Santa Monica, 1996 to 2021. Four American businesses took years to become anything, and each later described the delay as a decision. Todd Graves fished salmon in Alaska to fund one chicken restaurant.