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Horrible Histories

Series 7

Episode 6: Ingenious Inventors

First broadcast: on CBBC ChannelLatest broadcast: on CBBC Channel

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Mankind's most ingenious inventors are given the Horrible Histories treatment, as we take in everything from the invention of the wheel to the crisp. Featuring the Gutenberg press and the man who invented both the dictionary (very successfully) and manned flight (less successfully). The Greeks and the Chinese battle over which of them are history's best inventors. Show less

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