Our ancient ancestors had to come up with ingenious solutions and structures to travel freely - over the hills, valleys and rivers of our world.
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Bruce heads to a Martello Tower on the Channel Islands. Plus, the twins must get a WWII Napalm filled flamethrower ready for a buyer.
Bruce and ex-Para Freddy head to Russia, finding some of Moscow's biggest military dealers. Back home, the twins restore a rare German engine starter.
Bruce dives into the murky secrets of World War II spies. In Italy, he unearths an iconic code-breaking machine. In the UK the lads revive two rocket launchers.
Our ancient ancestors had to come up with ingenious solutions and structures to travel freely - over the hills, valleys and rivers of our world.
The ancient ancestors realized that building structures and machines to harness water to provide transport, power, drainage and irrigation was vital to the success of their civilizations.
This episode explores some of history's most ingenious, yet lesser-known engineering solutions.
Throughout history, our ancestors have always strived to go higher, bigger, deeper, further - and this is reflected in the buildings and structures around our globe. But what secrets can these ancient structures reveal?
How do they do Wallace and Gromit's cheese of choice, Wensleydale? How do they turn pig hair into paintbrushes? How do they distill aromatic oils from the koala's favourite food, eucalyptus? How do they make the plastic that keeps your food fresh?
How do they forge one of the greatest inventions of all time, the axe? How do they cut, sew, stitch and glue together a courier's messenger bag? How do they build the world's fastest lifeboats?
How do they brew a beer that won't make you drunk? How do they build a car that flies over rocks and boulders? How do they bolt together an escalator that will carry millions every year? How do they bust criminals with a lie detector?
How do they make the world's grooviest music, the vinyl LP? How do they build the world's most crashed car, the dodgem? How do they create one of the world's oldest pain remedies, tiger balm?
How do they build a caravan that's tougher than an SUV? How do they forge tuning forks to provide musicians with perfect pitch? How do they resurface an ice rink in minutes? How do they put on the world's biggest festival of lights?
How do they take the world's sharpest photos? How do they stitch an airbag that can catch a falling car? How do they make billions of perfect jelly beans?
How do they roast the coffee that wakes up Italy? How do they bake the bricks that build America? How do they heat the oil that fills lava lamps? How do they blast diamonds from a frozen volcano?
How do they carve longboards, the skateboard's bigger, faster brother? How do they turn tonnes of lemons into millions of bottles of lemons? How do they build industry's versatile heavy lifter, the forklift truck?
How do they make baklava, the favourite sweet of the Ottomans? How do they fly a gyroplane, James Bond's vehicle of choice? How do they craft a ukulele, the Hawaiian instrument played by Elvis? How do they build a supercat, the world's fastest ferry?
The McVitie's factory in Carlisle, Cumbria, opens its doors to reveal how millions of the nation's favourite biscuits are made, 24 hours a day, in one of Britain's biggest factories and oldest biscuit factory in the world.
From making fresh spaghetti and mixing the top-secret ingredients for sauce, to giant automated cranes and the latest robots, join today's Heinz factory workers alongside tomorrow's machines, making cans of household favourites.
Buildings with eccentric and unorthodox designs often have methods behind their madness, and serve to remind us of moments in history.
Buildings with eccentric and unorthodox designs often have methods behind their madness, and serve to remind us of moments in history.
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