Connections - Season 3 - Eps 3: Drop the Apple
At the Smithsonian, we learn of electric crystals that help Pierre and Marie Curie discover what they call radium, and then Langevin uses the piezoelectric crystal to develop sonar that helps save Liberty ships (from German U-boats) put together with welding techniques using acetylene made with carbon arcs, also working the arc lights with clockwork regulators built by Foucault, whose pendulum helps him to take pictures of solar eclipses. Also thanks to ash from seaweed, interchangeable parts for clocks, the world of opera, and gurus, we get Einstein's theory of the gravity effect, which means Newton's universe is gone and you can drop the apple.
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
