Inventions That Changed the World

1. S01E01The GunJanuary 15, 2004—There would be no guns without gunpowder, the volatile mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulphur that came to Europe in
2. S01E02The ComputerJanuary 22, 2004—In Victorian times 'computers' were people who added up rows of figures. Now they are mechanical wonders - without them we couldn't fly pla
3. S01E03The Jet EngineJanuary 29, 2004—When Sir Frank Whittle was developing his revolutionary jet engines during the 1940s, he needed robust but lightweight airframes to attach t
4. S01E04The TelephoneFebruary 6, 2004—At the time of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson's first successful telephone transmission in 1875, the only wires strong enough to be
5. S01E05The TelevisionFebruary 12, 2004—Television would never have developed without the cathode ray tube (CRT). It was invented by a German, Karl Ferdinand Braun, in 1897. A CRT

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