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Grizzly Few animals can match the intelligence, power or resourcefulness of the North American Bear or "grizzly". This film reveals the more intimate side to the grizzly - how mothers raise and teach their cubs, the playfulness and hardships of adolescence and the rituals of courtship. Most surprising of all is that every grizzly is its own character in looks, temperament and skills.
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In Victorian times 'computers' were people who added up rows of figures. Now they are mechanical wonders - without them we couldn't fly planes, drive cars or even run our dishwashers. Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the computer's evolution Jeremy tells the remarkable story of the computer's evolution from man with pencil to android with sub-machine gun. Jeremy discovers that the threat from computers lies not with Schwarzenegger's Terminator but from a much more devastating computer - Armageddon. The computer might yet change the world in a way that none of us are expecting.
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The gun The first invention covered in the series has generally had a negative press – the gun. The need for a more accurate cannon led James Wilkinson, in 1774, to invent a tube boring machine. This was then used by James Watt to make more efficient steam engines, which in turn powered the industrial revolution. Gun maker Sam Colt was not only the inventor of the first reliable revolver, which helped early settlers to defeat the Indians and led to the myth of the cowboy, but also invented a new method of manufacturing guns – the production line. Henry Ford made his Model T car affordable by copying, 'the Colt method'.Even the car exhaust pipe was a spin-off of the gun silencer. Street lighting was introduced to deter armed highway robbers whilst trauma medicine and the control of infections were initially developed to deal with gun injuries.
The jet In 1929 a young pilot named Frank Whittle described his idea for a plane without propellers, a plane that could fly at more than 500mph and 30,000 feet above the ground. His invention, the jet, would change our world, yet for over a decade he struggled to get financial backing. In this programme Jeremy tells the all too British story of how Frank Whittle pioneered and yet lost this extraordinary invention. Jeremy also heads off on a five day trip around the globe to explore the impact of Whittle's brainchild on the modern world. He explores how the jet has encouraged a range of developments from tourism to the spread of SARS, from air crashes to jetlag. Jeremy offers his own very opinionated take on the benefits of the jet.
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