We're trying something new...

- We are launching a whole new channel. There have been video ideas that I've pitched that don't fully belong on "Veritasium." - I've been in those pitch meetings. I've seen those. I've seen that happen. - But that doesn't mean that the videos shouldn't exist and that they aren't saying something very interesting. We need another way to tell these stories. - We at "Veritasium," we have a lot

- We at "Veritasium," we have a lot of exciting stories that we want to tell. Same Veritasium rigour, but this time it's about social science. It's about how our complex and constantly changing world works. So that's what we're doing. We're launching a whole new channel called "InGenius."

So that's what we're doing. We're launching a whole new channel called "InGenius." You can watch the first few minutes here, and if you like it, come to our channel, "InGenius," and you can watch the rest. This $40 hunk of metal rewired the modern world. It started a revolution

It started a revolution that transformed China from being one of the poorest countries in the world, to a global superpower, controlling 30% of all manufacturing. It's a story that's never been told before. How it inspires former spy, Yuan Geng,

How it inspires former spy, Yuan Geng, to create an island of capitalism in his home county with an invention that changes the face of communist China, spreading its influence across the world and upending the entire global economy. But the story didn't start in China,

But the story didn't start in China, it starts with a frustrated American trucker from North Carolina. (soft blues music) In 1937, 24-year-old Malcolm McLean is driving his truck full of cotton bales from North Carolina

of cotton bales from North Carolina up to Hoboken, New Jersey. At port, he waits for his truck to be unloaded, and waits, and waits. It's painstakingly slow, almost a whole day, and that's just his one truck. He figures, what if you took the entire back of the truck

He figures, what if you took the entire back of the truck and just put it directly on the ship? The whole thing would be over in a matter of minutes instead of hours. - So why don't we put that whole body on the truck? That's my first thought, ? - The problem is, truck drivers can't control how ships are loaded.