James Watt's workshop, as photographed in 1924
Alice and Stephen talk about the Scottish inventor James Watt, who was an important figure in the Industrial Revolution. His workshop has been reassembled as part of an exhibition at the Science Museum in London.
This week's question:
Can you put these four inventions in chronological order - that鈥檚 the oldest one first?
The hot air balloon, morse code, the vacuum cleaner and the typewriter.
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
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Watt's workshop
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Grammar
- inventor
person who makes items which have not been made before
- workshop
room or area where things are built or designed
- credited
given recognition, or believed to be responsible for
- chronological order
the order in which things happened
- cornucopia
large, varied and magnificent collection
- treasure trove
a collection of wonderful, valuable objects
