Jeremy Clarkson looks at key inventions that have made a global impact. This week traces the development of firearms and how t...
Engineering series for schools and colleges narrated by Paul BARNES.
This week looks at friction.
In Victorian times, computing involved crunching numbers with a pencil and paper. A century later, we rely on computers f...
Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of how Frank Whittle pioneered the jet engine and goes around the globe to explore the impact ...
This week's programme looks at the process of heat treatment as used on different metals.
Elisha Gray made the initial breakthrough in the invention of the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell 'borrowed' his idea and i...
The final stages of toilet paper production.
Gregg Wallace visits a sustainable forest in Sweden and then a pulp mill where the offcuts from the trees are tur...
Cherry travels to Scotland to visit the UK's last remaining factory that produces aluminium via smelting and electrolysis.
Gregg Wallace investigates how large quantities of iron and steel are transported around the factory using electromagnets.
Gregg Wallace investigates the enamelling process for the cast iron pots.
As the Mini turns 60, buckle up for an incredible journey into the secret world of the car factory. Every 68 seconds ...
Following workers across London as they race to build an enormous supersewer. The first episode follows the creation of the fi...
Following workers across London over three years as they race to build an enormous supersewer on time and on budget. In this e...
In a toilet roll factory in Manchester two types of pulp are added to water, mixed together and dried to make toilet paper.
Cherry Healey visits the largest iron ore mine in the world.
Cherry Healey visits a gin factory that has also been producing hand sanitiser during the pandemic.
Gregg Wallace explores the process of melting together the metals to the a cast iron pot.
Gregg Wallace investigates how the pots are moulded using black sand.
Hannah Fry explains packet switching, the breaking down of files over the internet rather than sending as one big file.
Large mother rolls of toilet paper are combined and branded to ensure quality.
Gregg Wallace visits the quality control area of the factory.
Cherry Healey investigates the process of recycling a car.
Hannah Fry takes a look at the bank card, the digital key to accessing cash, and finds out how its extraordinary innovatio...
Hannah Fry tucks into the tech behind food delivery apps, which are now used by 24 million people in the UK. Hanna...
Hannah Fry delves into the inner workings of virtual assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri...
Hannah Fry discovers why innovations in meat packing almost derailed the electric car revolution and how a breakthrough...
Hannah Fry finds out how 1970s car crashes helped us to count our steps, why WWII dog-fights led to a crucial health...
Hannah Fry visits eBay's authentication centre, where they are waging war against fake high-value trainers. She discovers ho...
Hannah gains access to a top-secret site where anonymous staff and the latest tech work to make the British passport one of...
Hannah takes a look at the vacuum cleaner, going behind the scenes with Dyson and discovering how the motor in their ...
With rare access to electronics giant Samsung, Hannah uncovers the technological game changers that have made the smartph...
Hannah Fry discovers the hidden WWII radar technology that heats up baked beans, learns the legend of the melted candy bar...
Headphones: these marvels of miniaturisation are worn by 30 million people in the UK. Hannah Fry visits Bose to find out ...
James May uncovers the fascinating science of engineering, giving a 'nuts and bolts' account of how...
Hannah goes behind the scenes to look at the technology behind the lift, entering a 246m high lift shaft to test everything fro...
Hannah takes a look at the air fryer - a device that is rapidly taking over people's kitchens, cooking up everything from ...
Gregg Wallace receives some tea leaves from Kenya and follows them through the factory that produces one quarter of all the tea drunk in ...
Hannah hits the production line with appliance giants Bosch to find the lifeblood at the heart of every fridge and gets a les...
Hannah uncovers the wild origins of the modern-day rollercoaster and gets the inside story on the UK's newest, tallest...
The rise of the smart doorbell is one of the great tech success stories of the 21st century. Hannah heads to Los Angeles to...
Hannah takes a drive to the National Highways control centre for the UK's busiest motorway to meet the team that keep the m...
Gregg visits the Woodmansterne card factory in in Watford. It's one of the largest greeting card companies in the UK, a family bus...
Gregg Wallace visits a huge brewery in Dublin to learn how two million litres of an iconic Irish stout are produced every day.
Ruth Goodman serves up the history of school dinners with UCL's Professor Gary McCulloch.
Brian Cox gains exclusive access to Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and Spaceport America, to explore what is really happening in privately fina...
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