Ashurbanipal's Library
A brutal Assyrian king collects every book in the known world. The first librarian was a war criminal.
Archimedes Yells Eureka
A Greek genius figures out displacement in the bath, runs naked through the streets shouting about it. Later dies because he's too busy doing math to notice the Romans invading.
The House of Wisdom
Baghdad becomes the brain of the world: algebra, astronomy, medicine, every Greek text translated and improved. Then the Mongols torch it.
Gutenberg Prints the Bible
A German tinkerer builds the printing press, mass-produces the Bible, and accidentally invents mass communication, science, and revolution.
Leonardo da Vinci
Paints the Mona Lisa, designs flying machines, dissects corpses, writes backwards. One man casually invents the future in his spare time.
Galileo's Trial
He says the Earth orbits the Sun. The Church says recant or die. He recants, mutters 'and yet it moves' on the way out, and gets house arrest forever.
Newton's Apple
A young Cambridge student goes home during plague lockdown and basically invents calculus, optics, and gravity in 18 months.
Darwin Publishes the Origin
A quiet English naturalist publishes a book about finches and accidentally rewrites how humans understand themselves.
Sputnik Launches
A beach ball-sized Soviet satellite goes 'beep' from orbit. America panics, dumps money into NASA, and the Space Race is on.
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What stories are in the Inventions & Discoveries collection?
The Inventions & Discoveries collection includes 9 stories: Ashurbanipal's Library, Archimedes Yells Eureka, The House of Wisdom, Gutenberg Prints the Bible, Leonardo da Vinci, and 4 more. All available as immersive audio on History Tea.
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What time periods does Inventions & Discoveries cover?
The Inventions & Discoveries collection spans c. 668 BCE, c. 250 BCE, 830 CE, 1455 CE and more. Each story is a fresh, cinematic retelling with immersive narration.
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