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Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention is a British science-themed miniseries, starring Peter Sallis, Ashley Jensen, Jem Stansfield, and John Sparkes, produced by Aardman Animations, which aired on BBC One during 2010, from 3 November to 8 December.[1]

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  1. 76 relations: A Grand Day Out, A Matter of Loaf and Death, Aardman Animations, Adam Hart, Albert Einstein, Animation, Arthur Paul Pedrick, Ashley Jensen, Atmospheric railway, BBC, BBC One, Black Watch (wristwatch), Brainport, British Rail flying saucer, Broadcast (magazine), Calculator, Charles Osmond Frederick, Claymation, Clive Sinclair, Comedy, Dava Newman, David Sproxton, Ejection seat, Emily Cummins, Extravehicular Mobility Unit, Festo, Frequency-hopping spread spectrum, George (robot), George Antheil, Gustav Mesmer, Hedy Lamarr, Human power, Imperial College London, Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom), Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Isle of Man, Jem Stansfield, Jet pack, John Pendry, John Sparkes, Julian Nott, KGB, Leik Myrabo, Lightcraft, Lionsgate Studios, Lynch motor, Magnus effect, Malawi, Manchester, Mars, ... Expand index (26 more) »

  2. British children's animated comic science fiction television series
  3. Television series by Aardman Animations
  4. Television shows set in Lancashire
  5. Wallace and Gromit

A Grand Day Out

A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out, is a 1989 British stop-motion animated short film starring Wallace and Gromit.

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A Matter of Loaf and Death

Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death is a 2008 British stop-motion animated short film produced by Aardman Animations and created by Nick Park. Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention and a Matter of Loaf and Death are BBC One original programming.

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Aardman Animations

Aardman Animations Limited is a British Bristol-based animation studio.

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Adam Hart

Adam Hart is an English scientist, author and broadcaster, specialising in ecology, entomology and conservation, especially in southern Africa.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

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Animation

Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.

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Arthur Paul Pedrick

Arthur Paul Pedrick (3 September 1918 – 15 August 1976)England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 was a prolific British inventor who filed for 162 United Kingdom patents between 1962 and his death in 1976 or 1977.

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Ashley Jensen

Ashley Jensen (born 11 August 1969) is a Scottish actress and narrator.

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Atmospheric railway

An atmospheric railway uses differential air pressure to provide power for propulsion of a railway vehicle.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Black Watch (wristwatch)

The Black Watch is an electronic wristwatch launched in September 1975 by Sinclair Radionics.

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Brainport

BrainPort is a technology whereby sensory information can be sent to one's brain through an electrode array which sits atop the tongue.

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British Rail flying saucer

The British Rail flying saucer, officially known simply as space vehicle, was a proposed interplanetary spacecraft designed by Charles Osmond Frederick.

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Broadcast (magazine)

Broadcast is a monthly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry, owned by Media Business Insight.

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Calculator

An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics.

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Charles Osmond Frederick

Charles Osmond Frederick is a British engineer who worked on interaction of rails and wheels at the British Railway Technical Centre, Derby.

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Claymation

Claymation, sometimes called clay animation or plasticine animation, is one of many forms of stop-motion animation.

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Clive Sinclair

Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Comedy

Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.

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Dava Newman

Dava J. Newman (born 1964) is an American aerospace engineer.

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David Sproxton

David Alan Sproxton (born 6 January 1954) is a British entrepreneur, best known as one of the co-founders, with Peter Lord, of the Aardman Animations studio.

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Ejection seat

In aircraft, an ejection seat or ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew of an aircraft (usually military) in an emergency.

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Emily Cummins

Emily Jayne Cummins (born 11 February 1987) is an English inventor and entrepreneur.

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The Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) is an independent anthropomorphic spacesuit that provides environmental protection, mobility, life support, and communications for astronauts performing extravehicular activity (EVA) in Earth orbit.

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Festo

Festo is a German automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.

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Frequency-hopping spread spectrum

Frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) is a method of transmitting radio signals by rapidly changing the carrier frequency among many frequencies occupying a large spectral band.

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George (robot)

George is a British humanoid robot created by Tony Sale in 1949.

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George Antheil

George Johann Carl Antheil (July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century.

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Gustav Mesmer

Gustav Mesmer (1903–1994) was a German inventor of experimental human-powered flying machines, often referred to in the press as "the Icarus of Lautertal." He has been championed by curators as an outsider artist, while his theories about improving aerodynamics through wing and sail piercings have been of interest to scientists.

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor.

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Human power

Human power is the rate of work or energy that is produced from the human body.

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Imperial College London

Imperial College London (Imperial) is a public research university in London, England.

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Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom)

The Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom (often referred to as the UK IPO) is, since 2 April 2007, the operating name of The Patent Office.

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.

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Jem Stansfield

Jeremy Stansfield (born 1970) is a British engineer and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC One science show Bang Goes the Theory.

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Jet pack

A jet pack, rocket belt, rocket pack or flight pack is a device worn as a backpack which uses jets to propel the wearer through the air.

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John Pendry

Sir John Brian Pendry, (born 4 July 1943) is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into refractive indices and creation of the first practical "Invisibility Cloak".

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John Sparkes

John Sparkes (born 6 January 1954) is a Welsh actor and comedian.

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Julian Nott

Julian Francis Kandahar Nott (born 24 November 1960) is a British composer and conductor, mostly of animated films.

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KGB

The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.

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Leik Myrabo

Leik Myrabo is an aerospace engineering professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who retired from there in 2011.

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Lightcraft

The Lightcraft is a space- or air-vehicle driven by beam-powered propulsion, the energy source powering the craft being external.

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Lionsgate Studios

Lionsgate Studios Corporation, simply known as Lionsgate Studios, is an American film and television production and distribution conglomerate owned by Lionsgate and based in Santa Monica, California.

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Lynch motor

The Lynch motor is a unique axial gap permanent magnet brushed DC electric motor.

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Magnus effect

The Magnus effect is an observable phenomenon commonly associated with a spinning object moving through a fluid.

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Malawi

Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mechanical counterpressure suit

A mechanical counterpressure (MCP) suit, partial pressure suit, direct compression suit, or space activity suit (SAS) is an experimental spacesuit which applies stable pressure against the skin by means of skintight elastic garments.

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Metamaterial cloaking is the usage of metamaterials in an invisibility cloak.

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Murray, Kentucky

Murray is a home rule-class city in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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Nathan Stubblefield

Nathan Beverly Stubblefield (November 22, 1860 – March 28, 1928) was an American inventor best known for his wireless telephone work.

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Nick Park

Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man. Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention and Nick Park are Wallace and Gromit.

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Peter Lord

Peter Duncan Fraser Lord CBE (born 4 November 1953) is an English animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace and Gromit.

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Peter Sallis

Peter John Sallis (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor, known for his work on British television.

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Player piano

A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls.

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Potters Bar

Potters Bar is a town in Hertfordshire, England,in the historic County of Middlesex - – Community Strategy First Review (PDF) north of central London.

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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Sinclair C5

The Sinclair C5 is a small one-person battery electric recumbent tricycle, technically an "electrically assisted pedal cycle".

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Sinclair Research

Sinclair Research Ltd was a British consumer electronics company founded by Clive Sinclair in Cambridge.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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Teasmade

A teasmade is a machine for making tea automatically, which was once common in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Theo Jansen

Theodorus Gerardus Jozef Jansen (born 14 March 1948) is a Dutch artist.

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Tony Sale

Anthony Edgar "Tony" Sale, FBCS (30 January 1931 – 28 August 2011) was a British electronic engineer, computer programmer, computer hardware engineer, and historian of computing.

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Trevor Baylis

Trevor Graham Baylis (13 May 1937 – 5 March 2018) was an English inventor best known for the wind-up radio.

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TT Zero

TT Zero was an electric motorsport event introduced for the 2010 Isle of Man TT races – replaced the similar TTXGP race as a 1-lap (37.733 miles) circuit of the Snaefell Mountain Course.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.

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Venus flytrap

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to the temperate and subtropical wetlands of North Carolina and South Carolina, on the East Coast of the United States.

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Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit is a British stop-motion animated comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations.

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William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba (born August 5, 1987, in Kasungu, Malawi), is a Malawian inventor, engineer, and author.

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See also

British children's animated comic science fiction television series

Television series by Aardman Animations

Television shows set in Lancashire

Wallace and Gromit

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_and_Gromit's_World_of_Invention

Also known as Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention, Wallace and Gromit's World of Inventions, Wallace and Gromits World of Invention.

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