This History Channel documentary details a variety of events that occurred around the world between the U.S. Civil War and the end of World War I, where technology and industrialization took off on a massive scale.

Following are points the video makes:

— The large amount of industrialization that existed in the northern U.S. helped it to win the Civil War.

— An ex-Samurai in Japan Iwasaki Yatar created the Mitsubishi company that pioneered building steel ships and eventually planes and cars, and Japan became the first industrialized nation in Asia as well as a superpower.

— The creation of steamships led to large amounts of people immigrating to the U.S. in the early part of the 20th century.

— The disaster of the sinking of the Titanic ship in 1912 is detailed.

— Charles Goodyear invented the process of vulcanized rubber in 1844, leading to rubber being used as components throughout machines of the industrial revolution. 

— Atrocities at colonial rubber plantations in Africa were exposed in Europe and the U.S. through the efforts of Alice Seeley Harris, who made use of new portable photography technology.

— Industrialization led to wide-scale manufacture of weapons of war used during World War I.

— Alexander Flemming discovered Penicillin in 1928, which was the first antibiotic that has saved millions of lives.