We don’t often stop to think about it but we are surrounded by genuine wonders of human ingenuity. Technology so clever, 20 years ago it would have been the stuff of science fiction… In this new series of The Secret Genius of Modern Life, Hannah Fry is back to uncover the secrets of these everyday miracles and reveal the mind blowing stories behind their invention.
This time it’s the Vacuum Cleaner. We might take them for granted but these super suckers are a miracle of modern engineering with a seriously surprising history. Hannah goes behind the scenes with Dyson and discovers the motor in their latest vacuum spins 9 times faster than that of a Formula 1 race car.
She finds out why a wheezy janitor in the 1900s took inspiration from a sewing machine to create the first popular, portable vac… And she comes face to face with a colony of creepy crawlies whose job is to help us fight the filth.
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Surely the most enjoyable of all the television presenters.
I see your top of the range Professor and I raise you Max Headroom, arguably the ideal host for such an engaging technology series.