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Jet
Engines
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Ian Whittle talks about the achievements of
his father Sir Frank Whittle - the pioneer of the jet engine
- the technology that has turned the twentieth century into
the century of international air travel. |
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Vacuum
Cleaner
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James Dyson designer and engineer and inventor of a new kind
of vacuum cleaner - describes the evolution of that machine
during the twentieth century. |
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Television
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David Miles is a communications engineer who supervises outside
broadcasts for the BBC. He tells us about how the transmission
of television pictures has developed over the last fifty years.
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Contact
Lens
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Professor
Otto Wichterle, the Czech chemist who invented the soft contact
lens. Pavel Kratochvil remembers his late colleague and teacher.
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Silicon
Chip
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Kevin Kelly is executive editor of Wired magazine in the United
States. He gives his predictions for the future of the silicon
chip - the basic component of all modern computers.
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