Inventions that Shook the World

The 1980s (1x9)

Air date: Jan 01, 2011

It's the decade of Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher; cold war and glasnost; big beats, big hair and fashions that seemed like a good idea at the time. The inventions of the 1980s have us looking inward at our own DNA and outward to the far reaches of space. Featured inventions: The Internet DNA Profiling The Nicotine Patch MIR Space Station Endoscopy Capsule