BBC - Connections (1994) - Episode 8: Separate Ways - Season 2
BBC - Connections (1994) - Episode 8: Separate Ways - Season 2
AVI/DivX MPEG-4 1145.8 kbps | 544x416, 30 fps | MP3, 48 kHz, 133 kbps | English | 22:00 | 209 Mb
AVI/DivX MPEG-4 1145.8 kbps | 544x416, 30 fps | MP3, 48 kHz, 133 kbps | English | 22:00 | 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 8: "Separate Ways": Burke shows how to get from sugar to atomic weapons by two totally independent paths. The first involves African slaves, Abolitionist societies, Sampson Lloyd II, wire, suspension bridges, galvanised wire, settlement of the wild West, barbed wire, canned corn, and cadmium. The second path involves sweet tea, rum, a double boiler, the steam engine, Matthew Boulton, English currency, the pantograph, electroplating and cathode ray tubes.
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BBC - Connections (1994) - Episode 8: Separate Ways - Season 2
BBC - Connections (1994) - Episode 8: Separate Ways - Season 2
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
Season 2:
Episode 1: Revolutions
Episode 2: Flexible Response
Episode 3: Getting it Together
Episode 4: Whodunit
Episode 5: Something for Nothing
Episode 6: Echoes of the Past
Episode 7: Photo Finish