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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World
The Airplane
Season 1
Episode 2
Take to the sky with the dreamers whose work gave humans the ability to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci’s “flying machines” to the modern commercial plane, without these inventions, we may have never left the ground.
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Dial in to the fascinating history of the smartphone.
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Blast off into history to see how rockets originated not in the sky, but in a cave.
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Go for a ride through the 9,000-year history of the ultimate freedom machine: the car.
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Check out the history of robots and learn how they are becoming a part of everyday life.
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Look back in time to see how humans invented the telescope.