Connections - Season 2 - Eps 20: Flexible Response
A whimsical look at the myth of the English longbow, Robin Hood, sheep, the need to drain land with windmills, the effect of compound interest, decimal fractions (wrongly pointing to the US, not Russia, as the first country with decimal currency; in fact the US did not exist at the time of Russian decimalisation in 1704), increased productivity, the Erie Canal, railroads, telegraphs, department stores, Quaker Oats, X-ray diagnostics, biofeedback, and servo control systems in a Panavia Tornado aircraft.
About Connections
Title: Connections
First Air Date: 1978-10-17
Last Air Date: 1997-01-01
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.688/10 (from 8 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 3
Total Episodes: 40
Network: BBC One TLC
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
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.
Cast
James Burke
Self - Presenter
