Connections³
(1997)
Overview
In the conclusion to his groundbreaking series, James Burke continues to make incredible connections to history's most important discoveries and inventions.
Cast
Episodes
Feedback 0.0
January 1, 1997
Electronic agents on the internet and wartime guns use feedback techniques discovered in the first place by Claude Bern…
What's in a Name 0.0
January 1, 1997
Remember the cornflakes from last episode? Because corncobs make adhesives to bond carborundum discovered by Edward Goo…
Drop the Apple 0.0
January 1, 1997
At the Smithsonian, we learn of electric crystals that help Pierre and Marie Curie discover what they call radium, and …
An Invisible Object 0.0
January 1, 1997
Black holes in space, seen by the Hubble Telescope, brought into space with hydrazine fuel, which was a byproduct of fu…
Life is No Picnic 0.0
January 1, 1997
Instant coffee gets off the ground in World War II and Jeeps lead to nylons and stocking machines smashed by Luddites, …
Elementary Stuff 0.0
January 1, 1997
Alfred Russel Wallace, who studied beetles, Oliver Lodge and telegraphy, a radio designed by Reginald Fessenden, which …
A Special Place 0.0
January 1, 1997
Professor Sir Alec Jeffries of Leicester University in England develops DNA profiling and schlieren photography used by…
Fire from the Sky 0.0
January 1, 1997
Due to continental drift and Alfred Wegener's passion for mirages, magic images from the sister of King Arthur, whose c…
Hit the Water 0.0
January 1, 1997
Thanks to napalm, made with palm oil, also used for margarine, stiffened with a process using kieselguhr that comes fro…
In Touch 0.0
January 1, 1997
Starting from an attempt for cheaper fusion power using superconductivity, which was discovered by Onnes, with liquid g…