Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
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Afleveringen
- S1 AFL. 1 - Spark15 december 201159min.In this episode, host Jim Al-Khalili shows what electricity actually is: a force created by the movement of charged particles like electrons. We'll also show how life creates and uses it, and tell the story of mankind's epic quest to do the same. We'll see how science learned to harness the power of electricity to build the modern world.Word lid van Prime
- S1 AFL. 2 - The Age of Invention15 december 201159min.In episode two we travel back to a world full of excitement at the discovery of electricity. Jim will see how scientists finally realized that the almost supernatural phenomena of 'electricity' and 'magnetism' were linked. We'll show that by wielding the awesome new power of electromagnetism, Victorian scientists created the modern world.Word lid van Prime
- S1 AFL. 3 - Revolutions and Revelations15 december 201159min.From radio waves bigger than a house, to gamma rays smaller than the nucleus of an atom, the electromagnetic spectrum is buzzing around us - but until recently we have only been aware of the tiny visual part of the spectrum. Jim shows in this episode that the discovery of the light spectrum drove some of the great names of modern physics - Curie, Faraday, Planck and Einstein.Word lid van Prime
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- Audiotalen
- English
- Ondertitels
- English [CC]
- Regisseurs
- Jon EastmanAlex FreemanTim Usborne
- Producenten
- DCD Rights
- Cast
- Jim Al-Khalili
- Studio
- MagellanTV
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