Overview

Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects that modern people take for granted, and see how science, invention and technology built on one another to change everything.

Network

• PBS
• BBC Four

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Self - Presenter

  6 eps

• 

  Patrick Stewart

  Narrator (voice)

  6 eps

• 

  Robert Ryan

  Louis Daguerre

  1 ep

Themes

• technology
• invention
• telescope
• rocket
• flight
• robot

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