Connections 2.
Disc 5
by James Burke, Mike Slee, and Richard Sattin
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"One word: One medieval word kicks off the investigation into different cultures with the same stories that ends in cultural anthropology. Sign here: Dutch piracy starts international law and French probability math, phonetics, and Victorian seances. Better than the real thing: How the zipper started with technology Jefferson picked up in Paris during a row about creation. Flexible response: Robin Hood starts us on a trail from medieval showbiz to land drainage, to the invention of decimals that end up in U.S. currency, thanks to the guy who started the Erie Canal."--Container.
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Program content c1994.
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Tracks the links between technological invention, social history, economics, and everything. Revolutions: Explains how the steam engine led to safety matches, imitation diamonds and the moon in a wild ride. Sentimental journeys: Asks what Freud has got to do with maps, prison reform with blue dye, the inside of a star with the Himalayas, and India reveals the answers. Getting it together: Begins by examining a SWAT team, which leads to hot air ballooning, the root of many inventions. Whodunit?: Questions who stole a set of billiard balls in 1902 and why was he the most famous crook in history? The clues: maps from 1775, Charles Darwin's cousin and the FBI.
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