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- Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World
The Smartphone
(Season 1,
Episode 6)
- TV Episode | 54 min | Documentary, HistoryTV-PG
Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World
The Smartphone (Season 1, Episode 6) TV-PG
The history leading to the smartphone is a journey through Roman fire signals, Morse code, Marconi's wireless, Bell's telephone, Lamarr's spread-spectrum signaling, to Apple's 2007 iPhone and forward to brainwave-controlled smartphones.
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| 14 cast members |
| Name | Known for |
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Jim Al-Khalili
Self - Presenter
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Saul David
Self - Historian
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Nadya Mason
Self - Physics Professor
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James Meigs
Self - Science Writer (as Jim Meigs)
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Danielle George
Self - Engineer
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Tan Le
Self - Inventor and Technology Entrepreneur
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Anthony Loder
Self - Hedy Lamarr's Son
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Philippe Kahn
Self - Sender of First Mobile Phone Picture
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Patrick Stewart
Self - Narrator (US version)
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Sian Altman
Hedy Lamarr (uncredited)
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Ken Byrd
Fisk Wilber (uncredited)
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Hedy Lamarr
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Alma Lejard
Lucretia Morse (uncredited)
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Darren McQuade
George Antheil (uncredited)
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