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Ultimate Weapons

43 min

Moving Mountains

43 min

Monster Monuments

43 min

Warrior Tech

43 min

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Ancient Einsteins

43 min

Power Tools

43 min

Greatest Ships

43 min

Biggest Builds

43 min

Roman Empire

43 min

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Extreme Engineering

43 min

Ancient Impossible

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Ancient Einsteins

Season 1 · Episode 5 · Jul 27, 2014

Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, these are some of the most ingenious minds in history. But many of their accomplishments would never have been possible without some of the geniuses of the ancient world. The fact is that most of our modern world is possible because of the incredible minds that lived thousands of years ago. We show the amazing genius of Archimedes, who managed to make water flow uphill and pull a ship up a beach single handed! Meet Philon the genius behind the world’s first robot, and Ctesibius who was experimenting with pneumatics centuries before anyone else. As impossible as it sounds, Heron of Alexandria invented the world’s first steam engine, as well as automatic doors and vending machines! You’d be surprised to find out just how much of today’s technology would be impossible without these “Ancient Einsteins.”

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Ancient Impossible

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Ancient Einsteins

Season 1 · Episode 5 · Jul 27, 2014

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