Connections(1978)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1978-10-17
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 8.2
Votes: 13
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 40
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention, Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. To demonstrate this view, Burke begins each episode with a particular event or innovation in the past (usually ancient or medieval) and traces a path from that event through a series of connections to a fundamental and essential aspect of the modern world.
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Seasons & Episodes
Connections
Episodes: 10E01
The Trigger Effect
Air Date: 1978-10-17
Both the beginning and the end of the story are here. The end is our present dependence on complex technological netw...
E02
Death In The Morning
Air Date: 1978-10-24
How did a test of gold's purity revolutionize the world 2500 years ago and lead to the atomic bomb? Standardizing pre...
E03
Distant Voices
Air Date: 1978-10-31
Telecommunications exist because the Normans wore stirrups at the Battle of Hastings- a simple advance that caused a ...
E04
Faith in Numbers
Air Date: 1978-11-07
Each development in the organization of systems (political, economic, mechanical, electronic)influences the next, by ...
E05
The Wheel of Fortune
Air Date: 1978-11-14
The power to see into the future with computers originally rested with priest-astronomers who knew the proper times t...
E06
Thunder In The Skies
Air Date: 1978-11-21
A dramatically colder climate gripped Europe during the 13th century profoundly affecting the course of history for t...
E07
The Long Chain
Air Date: 1978-11-28
Often, materials discovered by accident alter the course of the world. In the 1600s Dutch commercial freighters contr...
E08
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
Air Date: 1978-12-05
When Napoleon marched huge forces across Europe, he needed an efficient way to store provisions. A Frenchman preserve...
E09
Countdown
Air Date: 1978-12-12
What happens when you combine a carbon arc light, a billiard ball coating, a spoked wheel and consecutive images? Mot...
E10
Yesterday, Tomorrow, and You
Air Date: 1978-12-19
"Why did we do it this way?" Essential moments from the previous programs are reviewed to illustrate the common facto...
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