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BBC: Inventions that changed the world



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Jeremy Clarkson hosts Inventions That Changed The World, a new series which tells the stories behind some of the most significant inventions which have helped shape the world we live in today.

Our daily lives are governed by inventions. From what we wear to the food we eat and our methods of travel - it's all been invented or significantly altered by inventions.

But sometimes an invention comes along that doesn't just change the way we do things but changes the world.
Inventions That Changed The World examines not only how and why life altering inventions got off the ground in the first place, but also how they created a domino effect spawning other essential inventions in their wake.

Jeremy Clarkson presents this five-part series detailing the history of five different forms of technology we now take for granted, but were once revolutionary. Who invented them? How were they accepted? What is their present status?

1- The Gun

In this episode, we learn the history of the gun, from its early gunpowder and flintlock days, to the Sam Colt revolver era, to the incredibly high-tech firearms found today



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2- The computer

In Victorian times 'computers' were people who added up rows of figures.

Now they are mechanical wonders - without them we couldn't fly planes, drive cars or even run our dishwashers.

We need them, but will they ever get smart enough to take over?

Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the computer's evolution

Jeremy tells the remarkable story of the computer's evolution from man with pencil to android with sub-machine gun.

It's an epic spanning three centuries, a tale of passion, espionage and suicide – and it's far from over.

Jeremy discovers that the threat from computers lies not with Schwarzenegger's Terminator but from a much more devastating computer - Armageddon.

The computer might yet change the world in a way that none of us are expecting.



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3- Jet engine

In 1929 a young pilot named Frank Whittle described his idea for a plane without propellers, a plane that could fly at more than 500mph and 30,000 feet above the ground.

His invention, the jet, would change our world, yet for over a decade he struggled to get financial backing.

In this programme Jeremy tells the all too British story of how Frank Whittle pioneered and yet lost this extraordinary invention.

Jeremy also heads off on a five day trip around the globe to explore the impact of Whittle's brainchild on the modern world.

He explores how the jet has encouraged a range of developments from tourism to the spread of SARS, from air crashes to jetlag.

Jeremy offers his own very opinionated take on the benefits of the jet.



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4- The telephone

The telephone was invented by mistake by a man trying to make a humming telegraph.

Elisha Gray, who made the breakthrough, ended up with nothing while the person who 'borrowed' his idea and who is widely credited with having invented it - Alexander Graham Bell - would end up with the most valuable patent in history.

Jeremy tells an epic tale of money, greed, opportunism and blind chance.

As the telephone has evolved so has its applications: it has been used as an anonymous confessional and a tool of assassination; it has changed the way business is done and has allowed for the development of the internet.

Arguably, more than any other invention it has actually changed us and the ways we relate to each other.

And Jeremy discovers, to his horror, that it has also created a new breed of expert: the telephone anthropologist.



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5- The television

n Europe we have more television sets than children and spend an average of nine years of our lives watching them. Yet its inventors, two men with wildly different visions, died unrewarded. This is the remarkable story of John Logie Baird, a Scotsman whose only previous successful invention was the thermal under-sock, and Philo T Farnsworth, a Mormon boy who at the age of 14 drew on a blackboard the outlines of an electronic television camera. The first public television broadcaster was the Nazi party, not the BBC, but though Hitler recognised its propaganda potential, he missed its real value: television would help win the Battle of Britain, not because of what was on it but what was in it. From terrorist outrages to soap operas, from obesity to politics, Jeremy gives his own unique take on how television has changed our world.



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