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Plastic was first invented to save elephants from extinction. From Celluloid in 1869 to Bakelite in 1907 and the synthetic revolution that followed, here is the story of how an unlikely material came to define — and haunt — modern civilization.
In 1895, forty paying audience members sat in a Paris basement and watched moving images for the first time. How did that moment — and the accidents, rivalries, and economic pressures that followed — shape cinema into the world's most powerful storytelling medium?
Nature never evolved a wheel. Why not? And how did humans invent something that 5 billion years of evolution couldn't — tracing the wheel from the potter's wheel to steam-powered railways.
Explore the origin and history of wine, from grape fermentation in the Caucasus around 6000 BCE to the vineyards of the Roman Empire and the birth of modern winemaking.