大象传媒 World Service - 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy Episodes Available now

Installing Windows might take 5,000 years without it

Transferring money by text message is far safer and more convenient than cash

Once too precious to use, light is now too cheap to notice

Warrior monks, crusaders and the mysterious origins of modern banking

How vast mega-stores emerged with the help of a design originally drawn in the sand

How Uncle Sam played an essential role in the creation and development of the iPhone.

It's improved health, school attendance, agricultural productivity and farm worker wages

The boom in global trade was caused by a simple steel box

Saving lives with thin air - by taking nitrogen from the air to make fertiliser

Rudolf Diesel died in strange circumstances after changing the world with his engine