物語の舞台は1958年のアメリカ合衆国。大学を卒業したばかりのノーヴィル・バーンズは、ニューヨークに出て職探しに励む。経験の無さからなかなか仕事が見つからなかったが、ようやくハッドサッカー社の郵便室に職を得た。一方、ハッドサッカー社の社長ウェアリング・ハッドサッカーは、何を思ったのか会議中に重役室の窓から身投げをしてしまう。取締役シドニー・J・マスバーガーはこれを好機と見て会社の買収に動き出す。会社の株価を下げるため間抜けを社長に据える必要の出たマスバーガー。そんな彼が新社長に選んだのは、青二才のノーヴィルだった。
結婚にも仕事にも行き詰まった平凡な会社員モーガン・サリバンはついに会社を辞め、刺激を求めてハイテク企業デジコープ社の産業スパイとなる。彼はジャック・サースビーという名と偽のIDを与えられ、早速ある企業のコンベンションに潜入、情報盗聴を開始する。モーガンはかつてないスリルとサスペンスに興奮を覚え、任務を成功させるたびに自信を付けていった。しかし同時に、激しい頭痛と奇妙な映像のフラッシュバックに度々見舞われるようになる。そんな時、謎めいた女性リタが現われ、モーガンに驚くべき事実を伝えるのだったが…。
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain to reveal the secrets behind production on an epic scale.
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 to 16 October 2003 on BBC. The programme examines seven engineering feats that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.
The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla, William Harley, Alexander Graham Bell, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
In just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. Captains of industry built empires through innovation, ingenuity, determination, and sheer ruthlessness, while the labor of millions of working men and women -- most of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe -- helped reinvent the way America did business.
Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes.
Britain is connected by miles of roads, canals, and railway. This series explores the history of how we get around this ancient island.
Half-hour program on the "real-life adventure" of big business. Newsman Eric Sevareid, who served as host, described the series as neither "chamber of commerce boosterism" nor anti-establishment; rather, "an effort to report how various industrial sectors actually work."
Industry on Parade is a decade-long syndicated industrial television series produced by the National Association of Manufacturers, originally in collaboration with NBC and later by Arthur Lodge Productions. From 1950 to 1960, weekly episodes presented engaging short documentaries that highlighted U.S. industrial innovation, manufacturing processes, and business developments. Widely distributed to stations and educational outlets, the series promoted technological progress and American enterprise during the early Cold War era.
The story of an empire: From its founding in 1922 to its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was shaped by revolutionary idealism, but also by oppression and decay. The USSR evolved from Stalinist terror through the Thaw under Khrushchev to political processes such as glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev. Finally, in 1991, it collapsed.
Guy Martin's love of industry and endeavour leads him to China, where he reveals the unseen side of its innovation, technological development and gigantic manufacturing.
The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and other industrial relics where the modern world was made -- not by statesmen and philosophers, but by men, women and children with dirt on their hands.
