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Great Inventions

2021 1 season 35 eps

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S1 · E1 · Jan 13, 2021

Crash Test Dummies Episode 1

Crash test dummies have just one purpose - to save countless lives every year. Thanks to them, we have safety belts, air bags and crumple zones. Crash tests were initially carried out on real people, animals or animal carcasses. Nowadays, the dummies are packed with technology and cost up to one million US dollars. Great Inventions looks back at the early testing using humans and pigs and shows how much high-tech equipment is needed to make our lives safer.

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The first beer was brewed around 13,000 years ago - in Israel, not in England. Or maybe by German monks? What makes a good beer? What role does the choice of hop variety and yeast play? How do modern craft beers differ from mass-produced beers? And does the German purity law actually result in “pure beers” - or how many chemicals do they contain? Why are gas chromatography and modern sequencing methods used? There are lots of questions about hops, malt and water. Great Inventions provides the answers.

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S1 · E21 · Sep 17, 2021

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The first moments of success in early childhood, the first feeling of independence, the first rush of speed - what gives us these things? The bicycle. We have been propelling ourselves on two wheels for about 200 years. Initially invented as a wooden running machine by Karl von Drais, it later gained pedals and, thanks to Dunlop, became much more comfortable with the addition of pneumatic tyres. But for Great Inventions, the bicycle is more than a means of transportation. It is also associated with emancipation, environmental awareness and lifestyle.

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Pull on your jeans, grab a take-away coffee and travel to work on the underground... Jeans, coffee and the underground are things we use every day without a second thought. Although we take them for granted, they are still amazing inventions.

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Total runtime 29h 10m · Episode length 50 min · Type Documentary

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Premiered

January 13, 2021

Final episode

September 17, 2021

Status

Returning series

Country

Germany

Type

Documentary

Episode length

50 min

Total runtime

29h 10m

Original language

English

Production

O

Off the Fence

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D

doc.station

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W

World Media Rights

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K

k22 film

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