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They Made Our World

A series of short programmes about inventors and their world-changing inventions

World Service,8 episodes

Episodes

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Alexander Graham Bell
How Bell's interest in sound and work in telegraphy led to the invention of telephones
12 Oct 1988,8 mins
Marconi
Sending messages without wires, Guglielmo Marconi's role in the communications revolution
27 Oct 1988,8 mins
Jenner
Jenner and the folk belief that led to the eradication of smallpox
06 Jan 1989,8 mins
Mendel
How Mendel's study of peas led to him becoming one of the founders of modern biology
01 Feb 1989,8 mins
Edison
How Edison's methods of research led to the light bulb and the record player
29 Mar 1989,8 mins
Wright Brothers
Wilbur and Orville Wright and their contribution to the history of aviation
11 Apr 1989,8 mins
Henry Ford
The car maker who made motors for the masses and introduced the factory assembly line
18 May 1989,8 mins
John Logie Baird
A wireless with pictures.
18 May 1995,9 mins