• 2021
Great Inventions
  • 2021

Great Inventions

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Shini Somara Liv Boeree John Last Martin Archer

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 12, 2021

Countries of origin : Germany Netherlands United Kingdom

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Off the Fence World Media Rights Productions Doc.station Medienproduktion

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 12, 2021

Countries of origin : Germany Netherlands United Kingdom

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Off the Fence World Media Rights Productions Doc.station Medienproduktion

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 12, 2021
Crash Test Dummies
Episode 2 • Jan 13, 2021
Jeans
Episode 3 • Jan 17, 2021
Coffee
Episode 4 • Jan 18, 2021
Rollercoasters
Episode 5 • Jan 19, 2021
Industrial Robots
Episode 6 • Jan 24, 2021
Concrete
Episode 7 • Jan 25, 2021
Elevators
Episode 8 • Dec 28, 2020
Condoms
Episode 9 • Jan 11, 2021
Bicycles
Episode 10 • Jan 27, 2021
Retaining Dams
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1969
Hook and Loop Fastener
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
Harvesters
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
Glass
Episode 14 • Jan 26, 2021
The Fridge
Episode 15 • Dec 27, 2020
Harbours
Episode 16 • Dec 30, 2020
Agriculture
Episode 17 • Jan 20, 2021
Cruise Ships
Episode 18 • Dec 31, 1969
Prosthetics
Episode 19 • Dec 29, 2020
Bread
Episode 20 • Jan 03, 2020
Criminalistics
Episode 21 • Jan 04, 2020
Batteries
Episode 22 • Nov 07, 2020
Wine
Episode 23 • Jan 05, 2021
Genetic Engineering
Episode 24 • Jan 06, 2021
Tins
Episode 25 • Jan 10, 2021
Beer
Episode 26 • Dec 09, 2020
Flushing toilets and sewers
We can now enjoy music, a heated seat and even a perfectly targeted spray jet while spending a penny. The history of the toilet goes back a long way and even the ancient Romans built latrines. But a special place to answer the call of nature is not enough. The result also has to be transported away. Great Inventions follows the path of this bodily waste through the sewage system to the treatment plant and beyond - and explains why the concentration of drugs in our rivers is increasing.
Episode 27 • Dec 07, 2020
Suspension Bridges
Bridges are symbolic of all sorts of interpersonal and other connections. But they are also the physical connection between land masses, connecting different parts of a city, people and continents. Sometimes delicate in appearance, sometimes mighty, they are structures that have to meet the most stringent requirements. Great Inventions takes a journey through their history, from the simple plank over a stream to the suspension bridge that is over a kilometer long, and explains what aircraft have to do with bridges and how the tensile forces are kept under control.
Episode 28 • Dec 21, 2020
Computer Games
They stare at the screen spellbound, move their fingers around the keyboard at lightning speed, communicate worldwide via a headset, and move around and fire with unerring accuracy using a joystick. They are game-rs. It is a world where teenage programmers are as rich as rock stars, professional game-rs become icons and fill huge stadiums around the world, and people play for nights on end to advance to the next level. Great Inventions takes viewers into the world of Marios and monitors, conventions and consoles.
Episode 29 • Dec 13, 2020
Cars
No roof, only three wheels and rather uncomfortable - that's how you could describe the first petrol-driven car. Developed in 1885-86 by the German Karl Benz, it was far too expensive for most people. The American Henry Ford changed all that a few decades later. He revolutionised the production process and made cars affordable for almost anyone, with his Model T. Few inventions have had such a profound effect on the world as the car. Great Inventions celebrates this unique invention and looks into the future of mobility.
Episode 30 • Dec 06, 2020
Subways
Initially ridiculed, underground railways are now a success around the world. The era of underground passenger transport began more than 150 years ago in London with steam locomotives. The smoke was even "sold" as a cure by the operators. The tunnel network was gradually expanded using the shield tunnelling method and electric trains replaced the steam locomotives. Great Inventions ventures underground around the world, watches giant drills cut their way through the earth and takes a look into the future of the subway.
Episode 31 • Dec 08, 2020
Supermarkets
Meat from the butcher, bread from the bakery, vegetables from the greengrocer - fresh food, personal service, but very time-consuming. This is what shopping looked like until the birth of the supermarket. After some initial difficulties, the new shopping experience got an unexpected boost due to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Today, supermarkets are an indispensable part of our daily lives. Great Inventions explores the link between the history of the supermarket and that of the car and highlights other inventions that have made large shops big business.
Episode 32 • Dec 14, 2020
Television
TV is a medium that stimulates the imagination, arouses curiosity, promotes education and allows millions of people to participate in major events. Three men were involved in the invention, a farm boy who produced an electronic image, Charles Jenkins from San Francisco who used moving silhouette images and the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird, known by historians as the father of modern television. Great Inventions brings the story of television to life with spectacular images such as the moon landing in people's living rooms.
Episode 33 • Dec 20, 2020
Jet Engines
How do you manage to generate the thrust necessary to keep a plane in the air without one of the engines exploding due to the amount of heat generated? The solution was to use ten combustion chambers instead of just one big one. This was the idea of Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine. Initially used by the military in jet fighters, after World War II jet aircraft enabled millions of people to travel the world. Great Inventions takes a very special flight through the history of aviation.
Episode 34 • Dec 16, 2020
Satellites
Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, was launched into space on a rocket by the Soviet Union in 1957. A year later, the USA followed suit with Explorer. Today there are more than 2,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth, used mainly for telephony, television, radio and digital data transmission. A large number are also used for scientific research and meteorology. Great Inventions explains the technology without which modern communication and many of the amenities we now take for granted would not be possible.
Episode 35 • Dec 15, 2020
The X-Ray
"I have seen my death." These were the words of a woman when she saw an image of her hand. The woman was Anna Rontgen and the image was the first X-ray of a part of the human body. It was made by her husband, the German physics professor Wilhelm Rontgen. He had previously invented the X-ray while experimenting with so-called Crookes tubes. Great Inventions charts this revolutionary technology, including bizarre images of X-ray equipment in shoe shops, the importance of electron beams in medicine and their connection with space.
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