Schedule

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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

The Airplane

Saturday
Jul 18

5:00 pm

1 Hour

A look at inventions that gave humans the ability to fly, from Leonardo da Vinci's flying machines to modern commercial planes.
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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

The Airplane

Sunday
Jul 19

2:00 am

1 Hour

A look at inventions that gave humans the ability to fly, from Leonardo da Vinci's flying machines to modern commercial planes.
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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

The Airplane

Sunday
Jul 19

1:00 pm

1 Hour

A look at inventions that gave humans the ability to fly, from Leonardo da Vinci's flying machines to modern commercial planes.
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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

The Airplane

Monday
Jul 20

10:00 am

1 Hour

A look at inventions that gave humans the ability to fly, from Leonardo da Vinci's flying machines to modern commercial planes.
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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

The Telescope

Wednesday
Jul 22

3:00 pm

1 Hour

A look at how the telescope was invented, from Galileo to Edwin Hubble, and how the invention reaches the universe 13 billion light-years out.

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