Airing on Mondays at 9pm on Discovery and Discovery HD from 5 November, How We Invented the World takes a look at the five inventions that define the modern world: mobile phones, cars, planes, skyscrapers and guns.

The new action-packed four-part series celebrates the people and connections that made the inventions possible

> Find out more about the series on the Discovery website.

What’s your favourite modern invention? Let us know below…