America Revealed

Over the past century, an American industrial revolution has given rise to the most productive food machine the world has ever known. Host Yul Kwon explains how this machine feeds nearly 300 million Americans every day, reveals the engineering marvels created by putting nature to work, and considers the toll the population's insatiable appetite places on its health and the environment.

Yul Kwon journeys across the United States by air, road and rail, venturing behind the scenes with the workers who maintain the nation's transportation systems. He meets innovators creating ways to propel people farther and faster in years to come and uncovers the minor miracles and uphill battles involved in moving more than 300 million Americans every day on infrastructure built in the 19th and 20th centuries.

America's modern electric power grid, delivering electricity over 200,000 miles of high-tension transmission lines, has been called the biggest and most complex machine in the world. Yul Kwon travels around the country to understand its intricacies, its vulnerabilities and the remarkable ingenuity required to keep the electricity on, every day of the year.

Yul Kwon examines manufacturing in America and meets engineers who are reinventing the American auto industry, steelworkers accommodating radical new ideas about recycling and engineers who are re-imagining the microchip. He sees manufacturing changing from a system based on the movement and assembly of raw materials to a system in which ideas and information are the raw materials of a new economy.