The alarm clock. The personal computer. The smartphone. The radio. You know the greatest gadgets of all time (and you’ve probably owned most of them), but which has changed the world more than any other? To make our list of 101, a gadget had to be something you could hold in your hands, mechanical or electronic, and a mass-produced personal item. The rest was up to the judges. Check out our selections.

Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known o...

Chemical engineer and inventor Maria Telkes worked for nearly 50 years to harness the power of the s...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and...

The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist an...

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman taps into the creative process of various inventors, while exploring b...

This short film celebrates the hard work, tenacity, and ingenuity of inventors. Highlighted are some...

Trees talk, know family ties and care for their young? Is this too fantastic to be true? German fore...

Taking stock of the extraordinary adventure of "Pif Gadget", a French publishing phenomenon of the 1...

The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perh...

BBC Two takes us inside the world's biggest invention time capsule - the Science Museum vaults - and...

Since the invention of the automobile, women have distinguished themselves by their daring: the hist...

1932 Documentary showcasing the Ford V8 engine.

An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by...

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs...

Brian Owens was once a prominent professor of quantum mechanics until an accident stripped him of hi...

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to over...

Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provid...

An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototyp...