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There are currently 9 available episodes
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Series 4 1893
3/4 The internal combustion engine, hailed as the answer to pollution in London, is born.
First broadcast: 25 Jul 2008
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Series 4 1650: Coffee, Cosmology and the Civil War
1/4 The first coffeehouse opens in Oxford and signals the beginning of a new age of reason.
First broadcast: 11 Jul 2008
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Series 4 1923 - Traffic Lights and Frozen Food
2/4 The story of the man who made us all stop for a moment of peace at traffic lights.
First broadcast: 18 Jul 2008
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Series 3 1905
4/4 Albert Einstein develops a theory of relativity with some help from his shaving mirror.
First broadcast: 19 Sep 2007
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Series 4 1879
4/4 The light bulb and the first moving pictures appeared.
First broadcast: 01 Aug 2008
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Series 3 1866
2/4 Charles Darwin is an international celebrity, but Gregor Mendel holds the key to heredity.
First broadcast: 05 Sep 2007
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26/12/2008
Adam Hart-Davis explores the history of the technology of Christmas.
First broadcast: 26 Dec 2008
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Series 3 1628
3/4 Royal Physician William Harvey demonstrates that blood circulates around the body.
First broadcast: 12 Sep 2007
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Series 3 1965
1/4 Huge advances in military technology would later fuel the race to the moon.
First broadcast: 29 Aug 2007
