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Introduction
Archimedes 287 - 212 BC
Archimedes Was Himself, First And Foremost …
Of Course It Was In The Bath That Archimedes …
King Heiron Died In 216 Bc …
Johann Gutenberg 1400 - 1468
North Of Strasbourg Lay The City Of Aachen …
It Is Not Hard To Imagine How The Idea …
Gutenberg Had Been Going To Print A Missal …
Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
Benjamin Headed North To New York …
The Stove Was A Great Success …
But His Most Famous Invention Came …
Two Years Later He Was Sent Back To London …
Alfred Nobel 1833 - 1896
By The Time Alfred Nobel Was Born …
They Built A Small Factory, Where They Produced …
In 1888 Nobel Produced A New, Smokeless Gunpowder …
Alexander Graham Bell 1847 - 1922
Aleck Spent A Year At Edinburgh University …
Aleck Began Helping His Father To Teach …
Bell’s Second Idea Was What He Called The ‘harp’ Telephone …
In 1876, It Was The Hundredth Anniversary …
Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - 1937
When He Was 20 And On Holiday In The Italian Alps …
By Now, Even His Father Was Beginning …
On 26th April 1900, Marconi Took Out His Patent Number …
The Wright Brothers : Wilbur Wright 1867 - 1912 Orville Wright 1871 - 1948
Around 1890, The First Bicycles Were Being Imported … 05:00
In 1900, After Consulting The United States Weather Bureau …
When The Brothers Went To Companies …
By The End Of That Year They Had Made Over A Hundred …
Thomas Alva Edison 1847 - 1931
One Day, As He Was Walking To The Train …
The Office Manager Was So Delighted That He Hired Edison …
Edison had a flash of inspiration …
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Playing times:
CD 1: 75:33
CD 2: 77:39
Total: 2:33:12
Edited By – - Sarah Butcher
Producer – - Roy McMillan
Read By – - Benjamin Soames
Sleeve Notes – - David Angus (4)
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