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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

The Smartphone

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The Rocket

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The Car

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The Robot

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The Airplane

A look at how the telescope was invented, from Galileo to Edwin Hubble, and how the invention reaches the universe 13 billion light-years out.

The Telescope

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