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The Secret Life of Machines Season 3

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3x01 The Lift aired Feb 18, 1993

The Colosseum in Rome is thought to have had a lift to carry the Emperor Nero to his balcony. By the 18th century, Mr Villayer was touring the palaces of Eur... read more

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3x02 The Word Processor aired Feb 25, 1993

The name 'Word Processor' was invented by IBM. Their first machines were very difficult to use because they had no screen. A draft version was typed and stor... read more

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3x03 The Electric Light aired Mar 04, 1993

A Scottish chemist called Joseph Swann tried passing electricity through fine wires (filaments) to make them glow white hot in 1860. Despite enclosing them i... read more

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3x04 The Photocopier aired Mar 11, 1993

James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, patented the first copying machine, because of the disastrous inaccuracies that had occurred due to copying dra... read more

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3x05 The Fax Machine aired Mar 18, 1993

The world's first fax machine was patented in 1843 by Alexander Bain. He came from a remote croft in Caithness in Scotland and, for his early experiments, us... read more

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3x06 The Office aired Mar 25, 1993

Today, over 50% of jobs are in offices, but 160 years ago the figure was only 1%, and the only office workers were 'Dickensian' clerks. They had considerable... read more

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