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Engineering enthusiasts battle to create the most ingenious contraption using everyday objects. Teams are challenged to fabricate and demonstrate a new chain reaction machine before being judged on their ingenuity, design, and workmanship.
Three brothers from Somerset and a team from Loughborough University are challenged to build ingenious crazy devices that will allow Richard to straighten his duvet and "Make the Bed without Leaving the Bath Tub."
Three Social Media Stars take on three civil engineering students from the University of Southampton, as they attempt to create ingenious chain reaction machines that allow Richard to boil his kettle while sitting on the lavatory.
Three amateur British pilots take on the American team Wildcards in challenge to build a chain reaction machine that'll allow Richard to feed his dog without leaving his sun lounger in the garden. With a spot in the semi-finals at stake, the rival teams let their imaginations run wild - even employing a little espionage on each other's work in a bid to pull ahead, but will this tactic impress judge Zach?
In the final 1st round Heat: a fascinating team of physics-obsessed students from Leeds University take on three wacky yet captivating Spanish-born brothers in a bid to build a machine that allows Richard to water his garden plants without ever having ti get up from watching the TV.
In the first of the semi-finals, two teams of brothers go up against each other to build jaw-dropping chain reaction machines to enable Richard to dust his ornaments without getting out of bed
It is all to play for in the second semi-final of the crazy contraption building competition as the teams are tasked with creating a chain reaction machine that allows Richard to cook sausages in the kitchen without leaving his study.
It is the grand final of the crazy contraption building competition as two teams battle to build the best party machine for Richard's house and garden - all made out of everyday objects.
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The Bell System Science Series consists of nine television specials made for the AT&T Corporation that were originally broadcast in color between 1956 and 1964. Marcel LaFollette has described them as "specials that combined clever story lines, sophisticated animation, veteran character actors, films of natural phenomena, interviews with scientists, and precise explanation of scientific and technical concepts — all in the pursuit of better public understanding of science.
Join Stephen Hawking and other renowned thinkers as they explore the revolutionary new ideas that have evolved since the publication of his blockbuster book. Besides interviews, this stimulating documentary uses computer graphics and simple, easy-to-understand demonstrations to explain complex concepts. Topics include black holes, string theory, supersymmetry, dimensions beyond our perception, and the mysterious M force; all potential keys to unlocking the elusive "theory of everything" that seems so tantalizingly close.
How We Invented the World is the ultimate action-packed, hi-energy, landmark series that examines the four inventions that define the modern world - mobiles, cars, planes and skyscrapers -celebrating the people and connections that made them possible. Each playing a crucial role in where we are now in the 21st Century - able to travel the globe, to talk to one another at any time at the push of a button, to live in huge cities, to commute, to capture the world we live in, making the fantasies we create come to life. This four part series lifts the lid on how these iconic inventions came to be. Showcasing the people who have shaped our lives in ways that they could have never imagined or anticipated, this series reveals stories of human ingenuity, extraordinary connections, unprecedented experimentation and jaw dropping accidents that created the world as we know it.
Extinct for millions of years, dinosaurs continue to fascinate as scientists struggle to understand the creatures that went from domination to extinction seemingly overnight. This four-part documentary series attempts to provide some answers. From the badlands to the Yucatán Peninsula, paleontologists scour the earth to learn about the predatory habits of carnivorous dinosaurs, the land area required to feed a large sauropod and much more.
A fascinating insight into the evolution of modern medicine as we explore the medical treatments for certain issues from past to present, seeing just how much we have learned through trial and error. The series is also a chance to see how medical advancements are currently used to treat problems in the fields of oncology, ophthalmology, dentistry, neurology, obstetrics and orthopaedics, and to see what the future may hold.
