Documentaries Tagged “Connections³”
Connections³: In Touch
Connections³: In Touch
In Touch – Starting from an attempt for cheaper fusion power using superconductivity, which was discovered by Onnes, with liquid gas provided by Cailletet, who carried out experiments on a tower built by Eiffel, who also built the Statue of Liberty with its famous poem by the Jewish activist Emma Lazarus…
Connections explores an Alt...
Connections³: Hit the Water
Connections³: Hit the Water
Hit the Water – Thanks to napalm, made with palm oil, also used for margarine, stiffened with a process using kieselguhr that comes from plankton living in currents studied by Ballot bbefore observing the Doppler Effect that caused Fizeau to measure the speed of light speed. Fizeau’s father-in-law’s friend, Prosper Mérimée, who wrote “...
Connections³: Fire from the Sky
Connections³: Fire from the Sky
Fire from the Sky – Thanks to Continental Drift and Alfred Wegener’s passion for mirages, magic images from the sister of King Arthur, whose chivalry supposedly triggers the medieval courtly love answer to adultery, which were in turn inspired by the free love ideas of the mystical Cathars, who lived next to the mystical cabalists…
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Connections³: A Special Place
Connections³: A Special Place
A Special Place – Professor Sir Alec Jeffries of Leicester University in England develops DNA profiling and schlieren photography used by Theodore von Karman to study aerodynamics and Anthony Fokker’s airborne machine guns and the Red Baron and geography and Romantic ideas that start in Italy…
Connections explores an Alternative Vie...
Connections³: Elementary Stuff
Connections³: Elementary Stuff
Elementary Stuff – Alfred Russel Wallace, who studied beetles, Oliver Joseph Lodge and telegraphy, a radio designed by Reginald Fessenden, which was used by banana growers, studied by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, who got the Swiss to use stamps on postcards with cartoons of Gothic Houses of parliament, which in turn had been inspired ...
Connections³: Life is No Picnic
Connections³: Life is No Picnic
Life is No Picnic – Instant coffee gets off the ground in World War II and Jeeps lead to nylons and stocking machines smashed by Luddites, who were defended by Byron, who meets John Galt in Turkey, avoiding the same blockade that inspires the “Star-Spangled Banner,”…
Connections explores an Alternative View of Change (the subtitle o...