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S1 EP3 - Great Leap Years - Bells, Nobels, More Bells and Prizes

Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years

Apr 23, 201854:16Society & Culture

The spark that Napoleon sent across the century from Paris to New York with the prize fund that seeded the Bell Labs energised the next century's, in ways that the emperor could never have guessed at. Researched, written...

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