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The history of the barometer (and how it works) - Asaf Bar-Yosef
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Inventions That Shaped History
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- 1 The treadmill's dark and twisted past - Conor Heffernan
- 2 How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
- 3 Why is glass transparent? - Mark Miodownik
- 4 How the world's first metro system was built - Christian Wolmar
- 5 The wacky history of cell theory - Lauren Royal-Woods
- 6 The greatest machine that never was - John Graham-Cumming
- 7 Why doesn’t anything stick to Teflon? - Ashwini Bharathula
- 8 How do vaccines work? - Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut
- 9 How the sandwich was invented | Moments of Vision 5 - Jessica Oreck
- 10 The history of the barometer (and how it works) - Asaf Bar-Yosef
- 11 How the bra was invented | Moments of Vision 1 - Jessica Oreck
- 12 How do nuclear power plants work? - M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini
- 13 How the Band-Aid was invented | Moments of Vision 3 - Jessica Oreck
- 14 How does fracking work? - Mia Nacamulli
- 15 How coffee got quicker | Moments of Vision 2 - Jessica Oreck
- 16 How Braille was invented | Moments of Vision 9 - Jessica Oreck
- 17 How blue jeans were invented | Moments of Vision 10 - Jessica Oreck
- 18 What is the world wide web? - Twila Camp
- 19 How the bendy straw was invented | Moments of Vision 12 - Jessica Oreck
- 20 How the popsicle was invented | Moments of Vision 11 - Jessica Oreck
- 21 How super glue was invented | Moments of Vision 8 - Jessica Oreck
- 22 What cameras see that our eyes don't - Bill Shribman
- 23 How the rubber glove was invented | Moments of Vision 4 - Jessica Oreck
- 24 How the stethoscope was invented | Moments of Vision 7 - Jessica Oreck
- 25 How inventions change history (for better and for worse) - Kenneth C. Davis
- 26 Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero - Cláudio L. Guerra
- 27 How smudge-proof lipstick was invented | Moments of Vision 6 - Jessica Oreck
- 28 How did trains standardize time in the United States? - William Heuisler
- 29 The story behind your glasses - Eva Timothy
- 30 How farming planted seeds for the Internet - Patricia Russac
- 31 Which is stronger: Glue or tape? - Elizabeth Cox
- 32 How one scientist averted a national health crisis - Andrea Tone
- 33 What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves? - Congrui Jin
- 34 The deadly irony of gunpowder - Eric Rosado
- 35 How aspirin was discovered - Krishna Sudhir
- 36 The hidden network that makes the internet possible - Sajan Saini
- 37 A brief history of chess - Alex Gendler
- 38 The history of the world according to corn - Chris A. Kniesly
- 39 How does chemotherapy work? - Hyunsoo Joshua No
- 40 Hacking bacteria to fight cancer - Tal Danino
- 41 Why is cotton in everything? - Michael R. Stiff
- 42 How bones make blood - Melody Smith
- 43 How do blood transfusions work? - Bill Schutt
- 44 Who was the world's first author? - Soraya Field Fiorio
- 45 Why isn’t the Netherlands underwater? - Stefan Al
- 46 How the world's longest underwater tunnel was built - Alex Gendler
- 47 The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor
- 48 A brief history of plastic
- 49 A brief history of divorce - Rod Phillips
- 50 Why every world map is wrong - Kayla Wolf
- 51 A brief history of toilets - Francis de los Reyes
