101 Inventions That Changed The World
Dec 01 2012
•2h 35m
•Documentary
It starts with a spark, but some ideas catch fire and in the process change the world. Necessity is the mother of invention--from darkness, man found light (the candle) and from even the farthest distances we can still find each other (the telephone).
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