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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World (2019)

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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

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    S1.E1 ∙ The Telescope

    Wed, Apr 17, 2019
    Meet the brilliant minds throughout history, from Galileo to Edwin Hubble, responsible for creating the telescope. Today, their invention allows humanity to reach the furthest limits of seeing - 13 billion light-years out.
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    S1.E2 ∙ The Airplane

    Wed, Apr 24, 2019
    Take to the sky with the dreamers whose work gave humans the ability to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci's "flying machines" to the modern commercial plane, without these inventions, we may have never left the ground.
    8.2/10 (39)
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    S1.E3 ∙ The Robot

    Wed, May 1, 2019
    Learn how robots were first conceptualized in ancient Rome and see how their use has evolved over the centuries, from the calculator to the Roomba. Then, take a sneak peek at what future robots will be able to do.
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    S1.E4 ∙ The Car

    Wed, May 8, 2019
    Go for a ride through the 9,000-year history of the car, from its roots in dogsleds to Henry Ford's affordable and assembly line-built Model T, and meet the scientists working on the next generation of self-driving automobiles.
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    S1.E5 ∙ The Rocket

    Wed, May 15, 2019
    Learn the explosive history of the rocket, from its origin in ancient China, to its use as a weapon of war, to how adding hydrogen allowed it to carry astronauts all the way to the moon.
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    S1.E6 ∙ The Smartphone

    Wed, May 22, 2019
    The history leading to the smartphone is a journey through Roman fire signals, Morse code, Marconi's wireless, Bell's telephone, Lamarr's spread-spectrum signaling, to Apple's 2007 iPhone and forward to brainwave-controlled smartphones.
    8.0/10 (40)

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