Watched it on catch up last night. Abso-bloody-lutely fantastic viewing. I have a thing for old watches and clocks, having a small collection of each, and I'd love to take up clock repair as a retirement hobby. I find mechanical devices so much more interesting than modern I.T. based technology, probably because mechanical devices were generally designed by one person rather than assembled like lego from an available set of off the shelf set of devices. Think Mitchell and the Spitfire, Camm and the Hurricane, Gresley and the A4 Pacifics, Isigonis and the Mini, Turner and the Speed Twin etc. etc. etc.
I don't suppose any future generations will remember the names of any of the people who wrote the software that flies the Airbus.
The design, artistry and craftsmanship in the prog was incredible....
PS - another recommendation on Discovery, or Yesterday or one of the similar channels is a series of 'Top 10 Ancient Weapons (or inventions, or whatever). I watched one in which they demonstrated the workings of pnematic automatic doors on ancient Greek temples, and an ancient Greek vending machine which poured you a glass of wine when you put your money in. That's my kind of slot machine and invented about 3000 years ago.....
