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Teenagers talk to technology pioneers who have shaped their lives

Teenagers from around the world talk to technology pioneers who have shaped their lives.

Teenagers from the around the world talk to the technology pioneers who have shaped their lives. Each episode is introduced by seventeen year old Anna Zanelli, a budding designer from London. Young people get the chance to ask leading innovators the questions they want answered. We find out about the inspiration behind some of the most important digital inventions, what their creators needed to do to make them a reality, and hear words of wisdom from brilliant minds.

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World Wise Web: Lithium ion battery

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How Professor John Goodenough's lithium ion battery kick-started the wireless revolution

How Professor John Goodenough's lithium ion battery kick-started the wireless revolution.

Forty years ago, Professor John Goodenough developed the lithium ion battery and kick-started the wireless revolution. From electric cars to mobile phones, the world now relies on rechargeable batteries. Now, 97, and just awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Professor Goodenough still works at the University of Austin in Texas. Seventeen-year-old Adam from Poland asks him about lessons from life as well as lessons from science, and why he still works on developing the lithium ion battery even further.

Producer: Tamsin Barber.
 
World Wise Web is a co-production between BBC World Service and BBC Rewind.
Music composed by Nick Thorburn

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