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26/12/2008
Adam Hart-Davis explores the history of the technology of Christmas.

1879—Series 4
4/4The light bulb and the first moving pictures appeared.

1893—Series 4
3/4The internal combustion engine, hailed as the answer to pollution in London, is born.

1923 - Traffic Lights and Frozen Food—Series 4
2/4The story of the man who made us all stop for a moment of peace at traffic lights.

1650: Coffee, Cosmology and the Civil War—Series 4
1/4The first coffeehouse opens in Oxford and signals the beginning of a new age of reason.

1905—Series 3
4/4Albert Einstein develops a theory of relativity with some help from his shaving mirror.

1628—Series 3
3/4Royal Physician William Harvey demonstrates that blood circulates around the body.

1866—Series 3
2/4Charles Darwin is an international celebrity, but Gregor Mendel holds the key to heredity.

1965—Series 3
1/4Huge advances in military technology would later fuel the race to the moon.