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How Professor John Goodenough's lithium ion battery kick-started the wireless revolution
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The mobile phone
In 1973, Marty Cooper made the first public mobile phone call using his new cell phone
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Prosthetics
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The supersonic parachute which helped land Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012
World Wise Web: Part one
Teenagers meet pioneers whose inventions shaped our digital world
World Wise Web: Part two
Teenagers meet pioneering inventors, including the creator of the first mobile phone
