How Did We Get This?

Ever wonder how we got this?

The things we use every day didn’t just appear. They were invented, adapted, copied, improved, broken, rebuilt — and sometimes discovered completely by accident.

How Did We Get This explores the strange histories, unexpected decisions, forgotten people and bizarre twists behind ordinary objects, ideas and inventions.

Because everything around us has a story.

And the path from then to this is usually stranger than you think.