Suitable for teaching 11-16s. Michael Mosley and Mark Miodownik describe the invention of the jet engine by Frank Whittle in 1930, and its impact on the world.

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Michael Mosley and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Frank Whittle. After WW1 there was a large investment in aviation. Many car companies built engines but all planes, following the design of the Wright brothers, had to have propellers. Frank Whittle was an RAF pilot and in 1930 patented the design for his jet engine. This has no propellers or pistons, but uses a turbine to generate more thrust and fly at higher altitudes. In 1941 the first flight (of 17 minutes) with a jet engine heralded the beginning of the jet age.

This clip is from the BBC series The Genius of Invention: Examining the inventions that led to the electrical, the transport and the communication revolutions that shaped the modern world.

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Teaching Physics or History?

This clip would be ideally suited to showing students the significant achievements of Whittle. It could set the scene for a project on this or other famous historical scientists. As a follow-up activity, ask pupils to come up with a list of everyday things we do today that will seem retrospectively 'mad' or impossibly outdated in the future.

This clip will be relevant for teaching Physics. This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC KS4/GCSE in England and Wales, CCEA GCSE in Northern Ireland and SQA National 4/5 in Scotland.

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