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Lithium ion battery

How Professor John Goodenough's lithium ion battery kick-started the wireless revolution

• 10 mins

GPS

How Professor Bradford Parkinson and his team developed GPS

• 10 mins

Google Search

The early days of one of the world's biggest companies

• 9 mins

Computer animation

How Pixar made films that changed cinema history

• 9 mins

Internet networks

A teenager from the Philippines talks to "the mother of the internet"

• 9 mins

The mobile phone

In 1973, Marty Cooper made the first public mobile phone call using his new cell phone

• 9 mins

Formula 1 simulator

How can you recreate the experience of driving a Formula 1 car?

• 10 mins

Prosthetics

How a new generation of implants is changing the lives of amputees

• 10 mins

Drones

How battery-powered aircraft deliver medical supplies in Rwanda and Ghana

• 9 mins

Nasa’s Curiosity rover parachute

The supersonic parachute which helped land Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012

• 9 mins

World Wise Web: Part one

Teenagers meet pioneers whose inventions shaped our digital world

• 49 mins

World Wise Web: Part two

Teenagers meet pioneering inventors, including the creator of the first mobile phone

• 49 mins