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Each programme in the series examines the process of invention through some of the monumental accomplishments of one the world’s greatest inventors and their landmark contributions. Explains that no one...
For the last 550 years, it has been believed the Johannes Gutenberg was the inventor of movable type. This programme travels to Gutenberg’s hometown of Maintz in Germany to discover how Gutenberg lived and...
Buckminster Fuller described himself as a "living verb." Holder of 48 honorary doctorate degrees, born in the 1890s, he was a philosopher and engineer whose experience and global view of humanity and science...
In this edition of the science series, Adam Hart-Davis and an Australian team investigate the fly’s ability to walk upside down on the ceiling. The programme features the first-ever film to capture flies...
The current world speed record for a human-powered vehicle is 80.55 mph. In this edition of the science series, Adam Hart-Davis tries out viewers’ suggestions for high-speed vehicles, powered only by him....
A true Renaissance Man, Buckminster Fuller, best remembered as the architect and creator of the geodesic dome, made an equally dramatic mark as an engineer, inventor, poet, visionary, philosopher and...
Follows on from Robert Symes’ ten guidelines to help the lone inventor progress from bright idea to marketable product. Here Mr Symes and two inventors, one the designer of a cardboard skeleton kit and the...
Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive...
Dan Cruickshank traces the origins of the 21st century working world in some of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution, including James Watt’s steam engine; Richard Arkwright’s spinning frame which...
Dan Cruickshank presents a history of medical innovation during the industrial revolution, focusing on James Lind’s treatment of scurvy with oranges and lemons, in the first ever clinical trial; Edward...
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