The treadmill's dark and twisted past - Conor Heffernan
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How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
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Why is glass transparent? - Mark Miodownik
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How the world's first metro system was built - Christian Wolmar
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The wacky history of cell theory - Lauren Royal-Woods
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The greatest machine that never was - John Graham-Cumming
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Why doesn’t anything stick to Teflon? - Ashwini Bharathula
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How do vaccines work? - Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut
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How the sandwich was invented | Moments of Vision 5 - Jessica Oreck
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The history of the barometer (and how it works) - Asaf Bar-Yosef
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How the bra was invented | Moments of Vision 1 - Jessica Oreck
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How do nuclear power plants work? - M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini
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How the Band-Aid was invented | Moments of Vision 3 - Jessica Oreck
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How does fracking work? - Mia Nacamulli
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How coffee got quicker | Moments of Vision 2 - Jessica Oreck
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How Braille was invented | Moments of Vision 9 - Jessica Oreck
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How blue jeans were invented | Moments of Vision 10 - Jessica Oreck
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What is the world wide web? - Twila Camp
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How the bendy straw was invented | Moments of Vision 12 - Jessica Oreck
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How the popsicle was invented | Moments of Vision 11 - Jessica Oreck
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How super glue was invented | Moments of Vision 8 - Jessica Oreck
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What cameras see that our eyes don't - Bill Shribman
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How the rubber glove was invented | Moments of Vision 4 - Jessica Oreck
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How the stethoscope was invented | Moments of Vision 7 - Jessica Oreck
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How inventions change history (for better and for worse) - Kenneth C. Davis
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Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero - Cláudio L. Guerra
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How smudge-proof lipstick was invented | Moments of Vision 6 - Jessica Oreck
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How did trains standardize time in the United States? - William Heuisler
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The story behind your glasses - Eva Timothy
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How farming planted seeds for the Internet - Patricia Russac
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Which is stronger: Glue or tape? - Elizabeth Cox
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How one scientist averted a national health crisis - Andrea Tone
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What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves? - Congrui Jin
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The deadly irony of gunpowder - Eric Rosado
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How aspirin was discovered - Krishna Sudhir
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The hidden network that makes the internet possible - Sajan Saini
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A brief history of chess - Alex Gendler
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The history of the world according to corn - Chris A. Kniesly
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How does chemotherapy work? - Hyunsoo Joshua No
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Hacking bacteria to fight cancer - Tal Danino
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Why is cotton in everything? - Michael R. Stiff
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How bones make blood - Melody Smith
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How do blood transfusions work? - Bill Schutt
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Who was the world's first author? - Soraya Field Fiorio
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Why isn’t the Netherlands underwater? - Stefan Al
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How the world's longest underwater tunnel was built - Alex Gendler
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The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor
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A brief history of plastic
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A brief history of divorce - Rod Phillips
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Why every world map is wrong - Kayla Wolf
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A brief history of toilets - Francis de los Reyes
Description:
More than 50 videos featuring a range of inventions both old and new.
TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of TED-Ed animations, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed website (ed.ted.com).