Series exploring spectacular years in the history of science
Radio 4,Β·9 episodes
1650: Coffee, Cosmology and the Civil War
The first coffeehouse opens in Oxford and signals the beginning of a new age of reason.
1923 - Traffic Lights and Frozen Food
The story of the man who made us all stop for a moment of peace at traffic lights.
1893
The internal combustion engine, hailed as the answer to pollution in London, is born.
1879
The light bulb and the first moving pictures appeared.
1965
Huge advances in military technology would later fuel the race to the moon.
1866
Charles Darwin is an international celebrity, but Gregor Mendel holds the key to heredity.
1628
Royal Physician William Harvey demonstrates that blood circulates around the body.
1905
Albert Einstein develops a theory of relativity with some help from his shaving mirror.
Adam Hart-Davis explores the history of the technology of Christmas.
