Inventions That Changed the World
Jeremy Clarkson hosts Inventions That Changed The World, a series which tells the stories behind some of the most significant inventions which have helped shape the world we live in today.
Our daily lives are governed by inventions. From what we wear to the food we eat and our methods of travel - it's all been invented or significantly altered by inventions.
But sometimes an invention comes along that doesn't just change the way we do things but changes the world.
Inventions That Changed The World examines not only how and why life altering inventions got off the ground in the first place, but also how they created a domino effect spawning other essential inventions in their wake.
Beginning with the gun, Jeremy reveals that successful attempts to create ever more lethal weapons have not only shaped the world but led directly or indirectly to all of the following: the industrial revolution; the production line; cowboy films; street lighting; the car exhaust pipe and the development of trauma medicine.
Other inventions covered in the series include: The computer, without which we couldn't fly planes, drive cars or even run our dishwashers;
The jet which plays a key part in our weather, mass tourism and outbreaks like SARS;
The telephone which was invented by mistake by a man trying to make a humming telegraph. The telephone has not only changed the way we do business but also led to the development of the Internet;
The television which was invented by two men with wildly different visions: John Logie Baird, a Scotsman, and a 14-year old American Mormon, Philo T Farnsworth, both died unrewarded but their invention, Jeremy reveals, helped win the Battle of Britain.
Throughout the series Jeremy gives his own passionate and witty take on some of the inventions and inventors that he believes have helped change the course of history.
Some more important human inventions were FIRE, the WHEEL, IRON, ELECTRICITY, the PERIODIC TABLE.
Wonderfull! :)
i dont care what you guys say: the telephone was invented by graham bell in my town, brantford, Ontario, Canada.theres even a statue of the guy downtown in the old nell HQ building. and his home is there and everything. first call made was to paris ontario from brantford.
BBC wins again. Simply the best documentary I have seen in a very long time.
Should go back to the stone age?
Wow, he was a lot younger and thinner
The main idea of this article is "The history of the most significative invention that change the world we live in today"
Comments:
In my opinion the guns are not a good invention because with them the violence in the world increases every day.
In my opinion the computer is the best invention in the world because it helps to simplify life. The people can communicate easy, fast and efficiently.
(Mr please remember that i dont have my textbook yet, thats why im not doing the comments about the zipper and the post stamps)(thanks)
The main idea of this article is "The history of the most significative invention that change the world we live in today"
Comments:
In my opinion the guns are not a good invention because with them the violence in the world increases every day.
In my opinion the computer is the best invention in the world because it helps to simplify life. The people can communicate easy, fast and efficiently.
(Mr please remember that i dont have my textbook yet, thats why im not doing the comments about the zipper and the post stamps)(thanks)
Did anyone bother to watch this documentary to the end.
I only ask as I see all comments are based on the first episode.
I have found this to be very similar, if not compact, to James Burkes Connections.
I love how this guy seems depressed that the NATIVE AMERICANS not red indians which is a seriously intolerant label were winning at first and also makes a bunch of zulu's trying to protect there homeland out to be horrible invaders. O if only we could have slaughtered them faster and took there land quicker. By the way i'm super white not black or native american but I actually found it kinda offensive. He makes people that we invaded and stole from to be horrible savages intent on nothing but killing cowboys quite the opposite im afraid.
Guns are sexy? He lost me in the first two minutes. What an idiot!
Judging from the score music, this program had to have been made after the year 2000. So for this clown to have claimed that 200,000,000 guns in America was enough to supply one to every citizen was woefully and dangerously inaccurate. Unless of course this was written and produced around 1980, when the population of American citizens was actually two hundred million.
what about plastic?
The first air plane was created by a Brazilian inventor called Santos Dumont, he creat and flight the first air plane.
Old, boring english man should never ever do documentaries about new technologies as it makes them seem as archaic and technologically impaired as the flintstones. Especially such asinine foolishness saying that England won the Second World War when anybody with a brain and proper education knows that USSR won the World War. Anyways, awful documentaries :)
Does clarkson has the theology of god
There is no god but allah
A god is not the one who hosts something
Think for yourseleves
you know the truth but u are greedy
I know you wont believe it because in the quran it says o prophet , if you lecture them or not they wont believe on you they are failures
think about it failures christians, jews, athiests, etc.. ecpect muslims
thnkx
this is excellent! So much advancement since i was born (a mere 43 years ago) made me feel quite humble and a surprise at how much technology we all take for granted!
I could only stand to watch about 15 mins of the bit about guns as it made me feel ill and filled with too much despair(I Hate guns!)
These documentaries are very interesting. The content is very good. The only down side is that it is host by Jeremy which is abit weird and quite ego.
Mr.Clarkson has a very interesting show, but I have no respect for the man. Not only is he a racist snob, he shows no respect for other cultures and customs other than his so called favorites, sometimes confusing humor with ignorant and/or pompous remarks. Just one example is: "The Jet" part 005 referring to airplane crashes on minute 4:40 "..it's an even better news story though, when it involves lots of people.." and continues further to say that dying in a plane crash is "spectacular".. WTF?! .. Again, no respect for the man.. Great show.. self centered, pompous, ignorant, snob host.
as much as i enjoy the company of Mr Clarkson...It wasnt the British who cracked the Enigma code. It was in fact the Poles, a talented mathematician from the city of Bydgoszcz(or Bromberg as the Germans liked to call it) Marcin Rejewski cracked the code in 1939.
this fact was hidden until 2005 as the two governments signed an agreement, but come on...it only takes a bit of research.
apart from that: nice series, hugely enjoyable; thanks Vlatko :)
@ roland gopel- i got your point and you are correct about my age as well , I am 24.
@Vlatko
I'm fairly new to TDF & have enjoyed watching several interesting films. In so much as I have weighed in on a few conversations pertaining to said films. I am not entirely certain as to who or what your role is, but I have noticed your name & some of your responses to people on this site. At any rate I think it appropriate to say thank you for allowing me the opportunity to view some of these very informative & entertaining documentaries. I presume you are responsible. So again I say thank you.
Cheers to you Vlatko!
@ roland gopel- " would you have us believe that once a computer is built it is impervious to normal wear and tear …. and eventual errors without erroneous input from people", if you are talking about the hardware wear and tear then the probability of an error due to this is almost zero, almost all errors made by a computer are software errors and are results of human error during code writing.
"i guess there is a widely held belief that computers are somehow, almost magically, better than their creators."- yes they are , they are much better in calculations, analysis ....I cant understand the reasoning behind your second comment (' but, alas they are as fallible as we are.')
What can I say! Jeremy Clarckson (Top Gear) with guns/computers/jets...It's like, godlike:D Awesome stuff:D
@ christopher.miller
I think Jeremy has a fairly balanced view on computers. Would you rather have us all think that all the people who have built all the computers all over the world are infallible? further, would you have us believe that once a computer is built it is impervious to normal wear and tear .... and eventual errors without erroneous input from people?
i guess there is a widely held belief that computers are somehow, almost magically, better than their creators. but, alas they are as fallible as we are. and yet, in a paradoxical kind of way this imperfection of the machine is perfect. ...just like us.
why do i think this? i dabble in AI in my some of my spare time ..... for fun. (pffft .... AI, .... as if there were any such thing as 'natural' intelligence) lol