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.
Do you know what lies at the bottom of the ocean? Representing the majority of our planet's surface, extreme pressure and perpetual darkness mean that the ocean depths have only been seen by torchlight - until now. From the makers of the Walking with... series comes an enthralling exploration of Earth's final frontier seen through the eyes of its greatest inhabitant and the world's largest predator, the sperm whale. Following a young male from infancy to old age, the marinescape comes vividly to life: the impossibly deep canyons, the underwater volcanoes, and the spectacular mountain ranges.
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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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Gorilla Follows the 3 newly discovered gorilla sanctuaries in northern Congo, in search of the true nature of the lowland gorilla - uncovering as tangled a web of romance and friendship, jealousy and innocence as any human soap opera might contrive.
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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Do you know what lies at the bottom of the ocean? Representing the majority of our planet's surface, extreme pressure and perpetual darkness mean that the ocean depths have only been seen by torchlight - until now. From the makers of the Walking with... series comes an enthralling exploration of Earth's final frontier seen through the eyes of its greatest inhabitant and the world's largest predator, the sperm whale. Following a young male from infancy to old age, the marinescape comes vividly to life: the impossibly deep canyons, the underwater volcanoes, and the spectacular mountain ranges.
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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The telephone The telephone was invented by mistake by a man trying to make a humming telegraph.Elisha Gray, who made the breakthrough, ended up with nothing while the person who 'borrowed' his idea and who is widely credited with having invented it - Alexander Graham Bell - would end up with the most valuable patent in history.Jeremy tells an epic tale of money, greed, opportunism and blind chance. As the telephone has evolved so has its applications: it has been used as an anonymous confessional and a tool of assassination; it has changed the way business is done and has allowed for the development of the internet. Arguably, more than any other invention it has actually changed us and the ways we relate to each other. And Jeremy discovers, to his horror, that it has also created a new breed of expert: the telephone anthropologist.
The television In Europe we have more television sets than children and spend an average of nine years of our lives watching them.Yet its inventors, two men with wildly different visions, died unrewarded.This is the remarkable story of John Logie Baird, a Scotsman whose only previous successful invention was the thermal under-sock, and Philo T Farnsworth, a Mormon boy who at the age of 14 drew on a blackboard the outlines of an electronic television camera.The first public television broadcaster was the Nazi party, not the BBC, but though Hitler recognised its propaganda potential, he missed its real value: television would help win the Battle of Britain, not because of what was on it but what was in it.From terrorist outrages to soap operas, from obesity to politics, Jeremy gives his own unique take on how television has changed our world.
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Humpback Whale Few sounds are more beautiful or moving than the underwater songs of the humpback whale. Male whales compete with their songs, which often last for 10 minutes at a time, and can be repeated for hours on end. Whales separated by thousands of miles of sea will sing almost identical songs. Researchers have found that the songs change throughout the breeding months, following a mysterious pattern repeated across the waves. Whales also use sound to hunt. To catch herring, humpback whales release a stream of bubbles to form a shimmering, circular fishing net. Emitting a repetitive loud scream, they scare the fish into a tight ball, then lunge out of the water to swallow the shoal whole. Now it seems that the long-held image of the gentle giant must change to one of a ferocious and opportunistic hunter.
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