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The Eureka YearsEpisodes

    26/12/2008

    Adam Hart-Davis explores the history of the technology of Christmas.

    1879Series 4

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

    1893Series 4

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

    1923 - Traffic Lights and Frozen FoodSeries 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 WarSeries 4

    1/4The first coffeehouse opens in Oxford and signals the beginning of a new age of reason.

    1905Series 3

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

    1628Series 3

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

    1866Series 3

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

    1965Series 3

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