Our series on YouTube
Every Thursday, one famous invention and the patent that started it: the problem, the race, what the document actually says, and what happened next.
Premieres Thursday, November 5
Edison’s lamp patent opens by admitting that glowing carbon lamps already existed. So what did he actually patent, and why wasn’t the famous first claim the one that won in court?
Play the 15-second patent trailer
Premieres Thursday, November 12
Mary Anderson’s 1903 patent never mentions an automobile. It was written to clear snow, rain and sleet from the glass in front of a streetcar motorman.
Play the 15-second patent trailerThe order can change. Each link plays that patent’s free trailer.
The real patent pages, drawings and exact claim text, taped in where the story needs them.
Cinematic reconstructions of the workshops, streets and machines of the time.
Editorial illustration that makes the mechanism plain, labeled when it’s our sketch.
Each episode runs 10 to 13 minutes, with three Shorts cut from the same story. Patent facts come from the patent itself, and the history is cited in each video’s description. The visuals are AI-generated reconstructions, no real people are depicted, and the narration is an AI voice.
Type any US patent number and watch its free trailer in about 10 seconds.
Enter your patent number to watch its free trailer, drawn from your real patent. Don’t know the number? Find it by the inventor’s name.
The cinematic scenes in our channel films are part of Premiere. Every tier is made from your real patent.