Witness History Episodes Available now
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
After the Six Day War in 1967, 14 ships were stuck on the Great Bitter Lake
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
In 1969, Dyke and Dryden started one the most successful black British businesses
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
Dr Waheed Arian escaped poverty and war in Afghanistan to begin a new life in the UK
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
In 2003, demonstrators stormed the parliament building in Tbilisi, holding flowers
The Sunflower Movement
In 2014, more than 500,000 Taiwanese people protested against a new trade deal with China
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Handmade robots were installed in DRC's capital city Kinshasa to direct traffic
How the QR code was invented
In 1994 Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara designed a square of data, now known as a QR code
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in the USA.
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973
Eliza: When chatbots started
1966 saw the invention of Eliza, which is said to be the first chatbot
