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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...
A 2-disc DVD of the six-part documentary television series first broadcast in the US October-November 2014. Best-selling author Steven Johnson tells the stories behind six remarkable ideas that made modern...
Presenter Liz Bonnin meets the scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs, whose innovations are changing the shape of the future. Scientists with backgrounds in medicine, nanotechnology, biotechnology and...
This series takes twelve inventions and explores how they have changed the way people live. They explain how these inventions came about, from sparks of genius to steady incremental improvements, and...
A 3-part BBC series on the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci combined on one DVD with a two-part docudrama on the life of Michelangelo.
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....
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