==History Channel - Brits Who Made the Modern World (2008) Part 1 Tilting Trains & Formula One==

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**Brits Who Made the Modern World**\\
A Documentary looking at the untold stories of British scientific innovations. Join Peter Snow as he tracks down the people who fought against all the odds to create the incredible technology that helped Britain Make the Modern World. This series covers the invention and creation of the APT Tilting Trains, Mobile Phones – The Vodafone Story, Rockets – The Black Arrow story, Computer Games – the first 3d game and the incredible Harrier Jump Jet.

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**Part 1: Tilting Trains & Formula One**\\
In this first episode Peter Snow traces the history of the UK's experimental tilting trains of the 1970s and 80s. The Advanced Passenger Trains were intended to rival France's TGV and Japan's bullet train, but negative press and complaints about motion sickness helped scupper the project before it could get going, also in this episode the Lotus 25, an early 1960s racing car with a “revolutionary design that changed the world of Formula One forever


==See Also==

{{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3555863/Critics-choice-Brits-Who-Made-the-Modern-World-Five.html|The Telegraph}}

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