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1650: Coffee, Cosmology and the Civil War

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

11 Jul 2008,·30 mins

1923 - Traffic Lights and Frozen Food

The story of the man who made us all stop for a moment of peace at traffic lights.

18 Jul 2008,·30 mins

1893

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

25 Jul 2008,·30 mins

1879

The light bulb and the first moving pictures appeared.

01 Aug 2008,·30 mins

1965

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

29 Aug 2007,·30 mins

1866

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

05 Sep 2007,·30 mins

1628

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

12 Sep 2007,·30 mins

1905

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

19 Sep 2007,·30 mins

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

26 Dec 2008,·30 mins