Inventions That Shook the World
Season 1 • Episode 5: The 1940s • Watch with subtitles
Episode 5: The 1940s
August 17, 2011
It was a decade of big bands and big bangs. During the Second World War, the 1940s bring us some of the greatest inventions of all time. And in the peaceful years that followed, all that inventing know-how would carry on in ways we never imagined.
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