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X-Rays (1/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1989
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
The Cinematograph of the Lumière Brothers (2/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1989
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Otto Lilienthal's Glider (3/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1989
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Werner von Siemens' Dynamo-Electric Machine (4/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1989
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Nikolaus August Otto's Four-Stroke Engine (5/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1989
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Daguerre's Photo Camera (6/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1990
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Baron von Drais' Running Wheel (7/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1990
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
The Hertzian Waves (8/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1990
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
The Wrigth Brothers' Motor Plane (9/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1990
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Edison's Electric Light Bulb (10/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1990
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Rise / Bell: The Telephone (11/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1991
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Morse's Telegraph (12/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1991
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy (13/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1991
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Edison's Phonograph (14/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1991
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Stephenson's Steam Engine (15/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1991
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Otto Hahn and Nuclear Fission (16/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1992
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Charles Townes,Theodore Maiman and Laser Technology (17/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1992
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Robert A. Watson-Watt and Radar (18/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1992
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Sergej Korolyov and the First Satellite in Space (19/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1992
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Wernher von Braun and the Rocket (20/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1992
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Carl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and the Automobile (21/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1993
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
The Cathode Ray Tubes of Karl Ferdinand Braun (22/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1993
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
The Transistor of Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain (23/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1993
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
The Electron Microscope of Ernst Ruska (24/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1993
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Konrad Zuse and the Computer (25/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1993
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Nipkow, Baird, Zworykin and the Development of Television (26/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1994
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
The Cell - A Component of Life (27/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1994
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Gregor Mendel and Molecular Genetics (28/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1994
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
James Watson, Francis Crick and Genetics (29/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1994
Country Of Origin Germany
Language Versions German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB], French [DUB]
Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch and Bacteriology (30/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1994
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Edward Jenner, Paul Ehrlich, Emil von Behring and Vaccination (31/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1995
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Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Penicillin (32/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1995
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Anesthesia - Horace Wells, William Morton, James Simpson (33/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1995
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Asepsis - Ignatz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister (34/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1995
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The Nerve Cell - Santiago Ramón Y Cajal (35/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1995
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Insulin - Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, John Macleod (36/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1996
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Blood Groups - Karl Landsteiner (37/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1996
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The Immune System - Paul Ehrlich, Elias Metschnikoff (38/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1996
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Cancer - Karl Heinrich Bauer (39/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1996
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Radioactivity - Henri Bequerel, Marie and Pierre Curie (40/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1996
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Chemistry in Agriculture - Justus Liebig (41/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1997
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Fertilizers from the Air - Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch (42/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1997
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Rubber - Charles Goodyear and Fritz Hofmann (43/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1997
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Giant Molecules - Hermann Staudinger (44/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1997
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From Dye to Medicine - Hofmann, Perkin and Bayer (45/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1997
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The Dream Molecule - August Kekulé and the Benzene Ring (46/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1998
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From Atom to Molecule - Linus Pauling and Chemical Bonds (47/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1998
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Molecules of Life - Emil Fischer and the Proteins (48/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1998
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The Atom - John Dalton and Niels Bohr (49/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1998
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Order - Mendelejew, Meyer and the Periodic Law of Elements (50/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1998
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Acceleration - Wilhelm Ostwald and the Catalysis (51/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1999
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The Pill - Adolf Butenandt and the Sexual Hormones (52/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 1999
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The Emergence of the Earth, Pierre-Simon de Laplace (53/108)
Today we know that all planets of the solar system are about the same age as the sun, approximately 4.5 billion years. The basis for this calculation was developed by the French mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon de la Place (1749-1827). His greatest achievement was the linking of scientific disciplines such as astronomy, physics and mathematics. In 1796, he developed the nebular hypothesis..

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Year Of Production 1999
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The Corilolis Force and Trade Winds, Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis (54/108)
The reason why weather forecasts are still very complicated even today can be explained by the Coriolis Force, named after the French mathematician, physicist and engineer Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis. In 1835, working on the basis of Newton's laws of gravitation, he achieved a decisive breakthrough in meteorological research. He discovered a phenomenon which influenced ocean and air currents throu..

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The Emergence of the Continents, Alfred Wegener and Plate Tectonics (55/108)
What do earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have to do with life on earth? Why are Europe and North America moving away from one another at a speed of 3 cm per year? These questions were answered by Alfred Wegener, an interdisciplinary scientist -astronomist, meteorologist, researcher and balloonist - with his theory of the continental drift. Wegener first presented this theory to the public in 191..

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Year Of Production 1999
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The Skin of our Earth - Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort & Piccards (56/108)
Balloons have come to play an essential role in atmospheric research. Balloon sondes, as well as aeroplanes, are used to obtain data from the troposphere and the stratosphere. In 1898 Léon-Phillippe Teisserence de Bort used unmanned, instrumented balloons as sondes and measuring platforms in order to explore those layers of air which were above 10,000 metres. The result of his series of measuremen..

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Year Of Production 2000
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Ocean Currents, Benjamin Franklin and the Gulf Stream (57/108)
Mail ships took much longer than trading ships to cross the Atlantic: in trying to find an explanation for this, Benjamin Franklin came across the Gulf Stream. He derived his findings from his observations of whalers. For a long time mysterious, subterranean forces had been held responsible; then Franklin, renowned above all, as a statesman, recognized the main principle of surface currents. The i..

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Year Of Production 2000
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The Seismographer, Emil Wiechert (58/108)
Since time immemorial people have been trying to find explanations for the fury of the earth, which finds expression in devastating earthquakes. The ancient Chinese already carried out scientific research into earthquakes. They constructed the first known device to locate tremors. 2,000 years later, the pioneer Emil Wiechert found a solution for the hitherto unsolved problem of the strong natural..

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Year Of Production 2000
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Carl-Friedrich Gauß and Earth Magnetism (59/108)
Magnetism is invisible but ubiquitous. The best-known symbol for magnetism is the compass. Why compass needles point in a north-south direction was a mystery for a long time. In the 18th century, researchers began to focus on the earth. Much of what we now know about this we owe to the physicist and mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauß. The heliotrope, used in land surveying, was developed by the un..

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Cologne Cathedral, Master Gerard from Amiens and Gothic Cathedral Architecture (60/108)
632 years lie between the beginning of the building of the cathedral and its completion in 1880. On August 15th the foundation stone was laid for this cathedral of the century.The Old Cathedral from the Carolingian Age - the official church of the Archbishop of Cologne - had been demolished to make space for the new cathedral. Master Gerhard designed a cathedral which surpassed all others in its d..

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Year Of Production 2000
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London Underground 1863 with Steam Locomotive (61/108)
The London Underground is the oldest in the world. The network under the city extends over 400 km. 408 escalators and 112 lifts transport the masses into the modern "underworld" and back up again. Marc Isambard Brunel devised a system of tunneling using a so-called shielding machine. This was then further developed by the engineer Peter William Barlow who, in 1869, was commissioned to build the fi..

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Year Of Production 2001
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The Empire State Building (62/108)
It is one of the landmarks of New York and often regarded as the 8th wonder of the world. For almost half a century it was, with its 381 metres, the highest building in the world: the Empire State Building. The lack of space in the cities meant that a new type of building was called for: this was the birth of the skyscraper. John Jacob Raskob, the founder of General Motors, had decided to build th..

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Golden Gate, Joseph B. Strauss (63/108)
The Golden gate Bridge: the most famous bridge in the world and one of America's landmarks. The urban developer Michael O'Shaughnessy commissioned the engineer Joseph Baermann to design a bridge over the Golden Gate Bay. Strauss dared an unprecedented construction, he combined the two most common building techniques: self-supporting and suspension bridge. The most important requirements were that..

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The Concrete Needle, Fritz Leonhardt (64/108)
In the early fifties Süddeutsche Rundfunk decided to build a new television tower on the "Hoher Bopser", a hill in the surroundings of Stuttgart. The Stuttgart architect Fritz Leonhardt (1909-1999) designed a tower made of reinforced concrete, over 200 m in height and with a viewing platform. The tower was completed in only 20 months. The stability of the concrete needle is based on a simple princ..

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Building like Nature, Frei Otto & Munich's Oliympic Stadion (65/108)
On August 26th 1972, the eyes of the world were on Munich: it was the opening of the 20th Olympic summer games. Munich's Olympic Stadium was designed by the Stuttgart architect Günter Behnisch. The masterpiece of this stadium is the tent-like roof extending over more than 70,000 square kilometres. The actual building of the roof posed great problems - however, with the help of the architect and te..

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The Pyramids (66/108)
The Pyramids of Gizeh were regarded in Antiquity as one of the Wonders of the World, and they have lost none of their fascination even today. This is due not only to their size, but also and above all to their harmonious form and the extreme precision with which they were built. How was it possible for the Ancient Egyptians to create such structures? Science has succeeded in revealing many of thei..

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Year Of Production 2002
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The Hoover Dam (67/108)
Regarded as one of the boldest engineering projects of the 20th century, the Hoover Dam was built across the Black Canyon in the west of the USA in the 1930s. Its construction in these hostile rocky surroundings was made possible by a pioneering spirit, new building materials and technical skill. Originally planned as a flood-protection measure, the project grew larger and larger. Today this dam,..

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Year Of Production 2002
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Nicolaus Copernicus and Heliocentricity (68/108)
The astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who was born in what is now Poland, laid the foundations for our modern picture of the universe. In total contrast to the conventional wisdom of his day, he based his theories on the assumption that it was the sun, and not the earth, which formed the centre of the universe. The earth revolves around the sun while turning on its own axis - this was the only satis..

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Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Planetary Motion (69/108)
Through precise observation and evaluation of his results, he succeeded in proving the structure of our solar system. He discovered the shape of the orbits in which the planets move: Johannes Kepler. Many of his insights were way ahead of his time. It was not until half a century after his death that his theories were taken up - but then they provided an important foundation for modern astronomy...

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Galileo and the Milky Way (70/108)
The invention of an optical instrument made revolutionary developments possible: with his improved telescope - an improved version of one developed by a Dutch optician - Galileo Galilei explored the night sky. He discovered that Jupiter was orbited by moons. And he was able to confirm an ancient assumption, namely that the Milky Way, that pale stripe across the heavens, was composed of countless i..

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Isaac Newton and Gravitation (71/108)
Without him, many areas of science would be inconceivable. He is regarded as the founder of classical theoretical physics and as such, created the essential foundations for the exact sciences: Isaac Newton. Having grown up in very ordinary circumstances in the country, he was later knighted as Sir Isaac. Very often, his considerations were based on simple everyday problems. His thought processes t..

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Year Of Production 2003
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Joseph Fraunhofer and Spectral Lines (72/108)
Originally all that Joseph Fraunhofer wanted to do was find out how best to produce precision optical instruments. But unlike most makers of optical equipment at the start of the 19th century, his day, who were content to work on a trial-and-error basis, Fraunhofer took the trouble to learn some mathematics and physics. One important discovery resulting from his investigations of light was that th..

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Year Of Production 2003
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Jean Bernard Leon Foucault and Foucault's Pendulum (73/108)
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was without a doubt one of the most fascinating scientists of the 19th century. For some of his contemporaries, he was France's leading physicist, but for others, he was hardly more than a talented model-maker. After all, he was not a university graduate. But as a result of his pleasure in experimentation, his highly accurate measurements and the originality of his exper..

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Year Of Production 2003
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Max Planck and Quantum Physics (74/108)
With his quantum theory, the German physicist Max Planck opened up totally new horizons for science. At the heart of his theory, which mainly concerns atoms, molecules and their components, is the idea that some processes in nature are not continuous, but happen in leaps. These processes cannot be predicted precisely, but only with a certain probability. Planck's insights paved the way for many ot..

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Year Of Production 2003
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Albert Einstein: E=mc² (75/108)
The physicist Albert Einstein, who was born in Germany and later emigrated to the United States, is generally regarded as the most brilliant scientist of the 20th century. He became world-famous as the man who formulated the Special and General Theories of Relativity. Basing his considerations on the constancy of the speed of light, he not only turned ideas of everyday experience on their head, bu..

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Edwin Powell Hubble and the Expanding Universe (76/108)
With his exact observations, the American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble created important foundations for modern astronomy. His interest centred above all on distant celestial objects far beyond our galaxy. Many of his thoughts and observations contributed important evidence for the idea that the universe started in a Big Bang. The Hubble Space Telescope was named after him: since 1990 it has bee..

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Year Of Production 2004
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James Prescott Joule and William Thomson - the Discovery of Energy (77/108)
Industrialization was going literally "full steam ahead" throughout Europe. But science had a problem: it could not come up with a decent theory of how exactly the steam engine worked, nor could scientists really say what heat actually was. It was only in the mid-19th century that the British scientists James Prescott Joule and William Thomson conducted thermodynamic investigations which produced..

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Michael Faraday - from Electricity to Power Genaration (78/108)
For a long time, electricity was regarded as a force of nature over which we had no control. Even at the beginning of the 19th century, it seemed barely conceivable that one day it might be used to drive machines. We owe it above all to Michael Faraday that electric motors became widespread in industry within the space of a few decades. The English scientist's experiments revealed the principle be..

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Igor Sikorsky and the Helicopter (79/108)
"If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, but a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life anywhere." This quotation comes from a pioneer of aviation, the Russian Igor Sikorsky. Since his youth he had been pursuing a dream: the construction of a helicopter In 1941 he succeeded in constructing the first precursor of a helicopter based on the princip..

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The Brothers Montgolfier and the Hot-Air Balloon (80/108)
Since time immemorial myths and legends, but also serious scientific research have been concerned with man's dream of being able to rise up into the air. On June 4th 1783, the Montgolfier brothers demonstrated to the public in Annonay how one could make a balloon fly by means of hot air provided by fire. At first it was assumed that it was the smoke which propelled the balloon upwards and not the..

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Adam Ries and Calculation (81/108)
Until the beginning of the modern age around 1500 many people were unable to do even elementary sums. At markets, for example, where people paid in very diverse currencies, most people were unable to check the price demanded by the merchants. The man who was to change all this, by making the art of arithmetic understandable to the common people, was Adam Ries, better known under the name of Adam R..

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Sir Timothy Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web (82/108)
Surfing in the internet has meanwhile become part of our everyday life. Information, games, bank transactions - billions of data are sent, received or processed around the clock. The technology that makes this possible is the World Wide Web, together with e-mail the most frequently used tool in the internet. We owe this revolutionary technology to one man of genius: the programmer Sir Timothy Bern..

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Leonardo da Vinci and the Anatomy (83/108)
Leonardo da Vinci's interest in science went hand in hand with an exceptional talent for art - a unique stroke of luck for both domains. He was one of the first artists to dissect corpses. Leonardo used the knowledge thus gained in his painting, to perfect its method of portrayal and power of expression. With his studies of the anatomy he was striving to depict and comprehend the human figure in a..

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Louis Braille and his Alphabet for the Blind (84/108)
Not until 1825 was a system of embossed printing developed by the young Louis Braille, which is now used throughout the world as an alphabet code for the blind. The pedagogue Valentin Haüy founded Europe's first school for the blind in Paris in 1785. Haüy was also the person who developed the first reading code for the blind. In this relief alphabet letters in mirror image were carved onto thick p..

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Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press (85/108)
In 1450 an invention changed the world. The book printing method of Johannes Gutenberg from the German town of Mainz made it possible to reproduce books in a high quantity and at a relatively low cost. The technical basis for the intellectual, political and religious changes in the centuries to come was created. A stroke of genius led to Gutenberg's breakthrough. He took a text and dissected it in..

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Alfred Nobel and Dynamite (86/108)
The annual awarding of the Nobel Prizes in Stockholm is a big event in the media. Each of these prizes is endowed with over a million euros. Yet only a few people know that the prizes were donated by a man who has gone down in history as the inventor of dynamite and as one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 19th century. In Paris Nobel became the assistant of the chemist Theophil-Jules Pe..

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James Watt and the Steam Engine (87/108)
One name stands for its success story: James Watt. The Scottish engineer did not invent the steam engine, but he made decisive improvements in its method of functioning . He realised that its principle was not very efficient: when the cylinder was filled with steam it became very hot and then cooled down again to condense the steam. Watt had the ground-breaking idea of using two separate cylinders..

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Year Of Production 2006
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Otto von Guerika and Air Pressure (88/108)
He developed the barometer, an instrument for measuring air pressure, and used it for weather forecasts. The barometer is only one of the many results of his research into the effects of air or air pressure. The experiments carried out by von Guericke were based on his ability to produce for the first time a sphere without air - a vacuum. Guericke was fascinated by the immense power of air pressur..

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Year Of Production 2006
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Willem Einthoven and the Electro Cardiograph (89/108)
In 1840 the German physiologist Emil Du Bois Reymond wanted to demonstrate with electrical measuring instruments the existence of weak electrical currents in nerves and muscles. And he succeeded: nerves receive and transmit stimuli by means of electrical impulses. This process was found not only in nerves, but also in muscles. For they, too, need an electrical impulse in order to contract. In ov..

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Year Of Production 2006
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Alessandro Volta and the Battery (90/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 2006
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Georg Simon Ohm and the electrical Resitor (91/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 2007
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André Marie Ampère an the Electromagnetism (92/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 2007
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Blaise Pascal and the Compression (93/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 2007
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Frank Whittle, Hans von Ohain and the Jet Engine (94/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 2007
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Rudolf Diesel and the Diesel Engine (95/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 2007
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Carl von Linde and the Cooling Technology (96/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 2008
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Leo Hendrik Baekeland and the Bakelite (97/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 2008
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From Chlorine to PVC (Fritz Klatte, Hermann Staudinger) (98/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 2008
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Robert Stirling and the Stirling-Engine (99/108)
Alternative energy is a more important issue than ever and the growing interest in it is re focusing attention on a 190-year-old invention: the Stirling engine, named after its inventor, the Reverend Dr. Robert Stirling. Although the principles of thermodynamics were not yet known, Stirling was aware that gases expand with heat and contract with cold. This is the principle on which the Stirling en..

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Year Of Production 2008
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William Robert Grove an the Fuel Cell (100/108)
The principle of the fuel cell was discovered more than 160 years ago. Yet even today, the "galvanic gas battery" described back in 1839 by the British physicist William Robert Grove is still a technology of the future. Grove presented a working fuel cell in 1839 during a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution in London. He dipped two platinum electrodes in sulphuric acid and exposed one to h..

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Year Of Production 2008
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Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes, Walther Meissner and the Superconductor (101/108)
Cooled below a critical temperature, certain materials display astonishing characteristics. They can be made to levitate, to present no electrical resistance and thus conduct electrical current with zero losses. The Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes observed that mercury cooled with liquid helium to below -269° C conducts an electrical current without any resistance whatsoever - and with no h..

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Daniel Bernoulli and the Hydodynamic (102/108)
Why does a plane fly? What keeps it in the air? How does a perfume atomiser work? When we take a shower, why does the shower curtain billow inwards and cling annoyingly to our skin? Behind all these phenomena is a single law of physics discovered by a Swiss mathematician and physicist in the early 18th century: Daniel Bernoulli. His expertise also went into the design of the cascades and fountains..

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Year Of Production 2008
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Ernst Abbe and the Microscope (103/108)
The microscope has probably done more to push forward the frontiers of science - and particularly medicine - than any other research tool. The key to its outstanding success lies in the precise mathematical formulation of microscopic image formation. Many scientists had worked on it in vain. The breakthrough was finally made by a mathematician and physicist in Jena: Ernst Abbe. Recently embarked o..

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Year Of Production 2008
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Gregor Mendel and the classical genetics (105/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Frederik Banting, Charles Best and the insulin (106/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Henri Bequerel, Marie Curie and the radioactivity (107/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Niels Bohr and his atomic model (108/108)
In the series important inventions and discoveries from the spheres of geoscience and civil engineering are presented. The viewer gains insight into both the scientific and the socio-political background of a discovery or an invention. Pioneers of science are portrayed, subjects of research are presented and their further development up to the present day is traced. The process and functioning of..

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Year Of Production 2008
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