50 Things - Electrics

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Feb 12th, 2025

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Episodes about electrics from the BBC series '50 Things that made the modern world'.

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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
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Battery
Mar 18th, 2017
Murderers in early 19th century London feared surviving their executions. That’s because their bodies were often handed to scientists for strange anatomical experiments. If George Foster, executed in 1803, had woken up on the lab table, it would have been in particularly undignified circumstances. In front of a large L...
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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

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Dynamo

Jul 15th, 2017

You might think electricity had an immediate and transformative impact on economic productivity. But you would be wrong. Thirty years after the invention of the useable light bulb, almost all American factories still relied on steam. Factory owners simply couldn’t see the advantage of electric power when their steam sy...

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