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Focuses on Thomas Edison’s pioneering work on electric lighting and a host of other inventions, as an example of the total innovation process and to illustrate the range of factors behind the success of...
The late nineteenth century saw many discoveries and new technologies that transformed clinical medicine. A different kind of invention from this period came to be seen as an essential weapon in the war...
Born on the threshold of Americas burgeoning industrial empire, Edisons curiosity led him to its cutting edge. With just three months of formal schooling, he took on one seemingly impossible technical...
Three programmes telling the story of electricity and the history of its discovery and applications. The first programme SPARK, is about the very first scientists who studied electricity. Known as ‘natural...
Focuses on the period 1796-1828, but begins by taking a brief look back on Goya’s earlier career before exploring his drawings and their context. Examines technique, style and subject matter.
Steven Pinker’s work ‘The Language Instinct,' argues that human language is not an invention, but a natural instinct unique to man. Here Pinker introduces his thinking and the arguments that support his...
One of the 20th-century’s greatest innovators, Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is best known for his invention of spatialism, involving new scientific methods for projecting images and the...
Follows inventor and ex-hairdresser Maurice Ward on a trip to NASA to discuss his invention ‘starlite’, a new kind of indestructible plastic that interests not only NASA, but also government departments...
The 11th volume in a series which looks at architecture and its historical and social functions to reveal its meaning and impact on humanity. This volume features two films: Paris, The Invention of the...
Looks at the work of the Rural Development Commission, which, by designing simple, inexpensive, innovative technology to assist small firms in improving productivity, creating jobs and aiding expansion, may...
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