1902: Two Minutes to Erase a City. Four Years to Find a Sun. 36 Years to Read a Monk's Notes

0:00 A City Erased in Two Minutes - Mont Pelée 4:02 A Sun in a Shed - Marie Curie 6:41 The Monk Who Was Right - Gregor Mendel 9:27 The Invisible Invention - Willis Carrier 11:40 A Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès 14:48 The Voice That Never Disappeared - Enrico Caruso In 1902, a volcano erased a city in two minutes. While the world watched, a woman working in a leaking shed outside Paris found a sun hidden inside matter. A dead monk's forgotten notebooks were pulled from a library shelf and revealed the laws of heredity. And a voice was pressed into wax — and never disappeared. Six stories. Five ordinary rooms.