On the Move shows how human society has benefited from multifarious innovations, from the earliest methods of farming and preserving food, through steam and electric power, and on to wonders of civil engineering and medicine, as well as a host of domestic gadgets and gizmos. Dozens of designs/discoveries include a Roman watermill and flushing loo, the iron-smelting furnace, the flying shuttle and spinning jenny, the tin can, the ice popsicle (invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson), nylon, fibreglass, anaesthetics, the germ theory, toothpaste and false teeth!