World's Greatest Inventions
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1:00:00World's Greatest Inventions
A look at various dams sheds light on how humanity has looked to nature for inspiration.
1:00:00The history of aviation reveals how Sir Frank Whittle invented the jet engine.
1:00:00Bridges are more advanced, joining different parts of a city, land masses or continents.
1:00:00The history of the TV reveals how the invention came to be after a farm boy.
1:00:00The introduction of the supermarket and the invention of the car.
1:00:00Underground railways were initially ridiculed, but subway systems soon changed the world.
1:00:00A German physics professor invents the X-ray and takes an image of his wife's hand.
55:00 1:00:00Thousands of satellites in orbit around the planet are used mainly for telephony.
1:00:00Innovation of the modern sewage system serves the important sanitary purpose in society.