BBC - Connections (1994) - Episode 1: Revolutions - Season 2
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AVI/DivX MPEG-4 1148.5 kbps | 592x448, 30 fps | MP3, 48 kHz, 103 kbps | English | 22:01 | 209 Mb
Connections is a documentary television series created, written and presented by science historian James Burke. It took an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention and demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively in an interconnected way to bring about particular aspects of modern technology. The series was noted for Burke's crisp and enthusiastic presentation (and dry humour), historical re-enactments, and intricate working models.
Episode 1: "Revolutions": What do all these things have in common—three grandfather's lifetimes, two revolutions, 1750 Cornish steam engines for Cornwall's tin mines, water in mines, pumps, steam engines, Watt's copier, carbon paper, matches, phosphorus fertiliser, trains and gene-pool mixing, travelling salesmen, 24-hour production, educated women, the telephone, high-rise buildings, Damascus's swords, steel, diamond, carborundum, graphite, oscilloscope, television, Apollo space program, x-ray crystallography, DNA and gene therapy? You will learn these things in the first episode of Connections.
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Season 1:
Episode 1: The Trigger Effect
Episode 2: Death in the Morning
Episode 3: Distant Voices
Episode 4: Faith In Numbers
Episode 5: The Wheel of Fortune
Episode 6: Thunder in the Skies
Episode 7: The Long Chain
Episode 8: Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Episode 9: Countdown
Episode 10: Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
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