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Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

Science Documentary hosted by Professor Jim Al-Khalili, published by BBC in 2011 - English narration





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Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature's most mysterious force - electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements.
Without electricity, we would be lost. This series tells of dazzling leaps of imagination and extraordinary experiments - a story of maverick geniuses who used electricity to light our cities, to communicate across the seas and through the air, to create modern industry and to give us the digital revolution.


1) Episode 1: Spark
Episode one tells the story of the very first 'natural philosophers' who started to unlock the mysteries of electricity. They studied its curious link to life, built strange and powerful instruments to create it and even tamed lightning itself. It was these men who truly laid the foundations of the modern world. Electricity was without doubt a fantastical wonder. This is the story about what happened when the first real concerted effort was made to understand electricity; how we learned to create and store it, before finally creating something that enabled us to make it at will - the battery.

2) Episode 2: The Age of Invention
Just under 200 years ago scientists discovered something profound, that electricity is connected to another of nature's most fundamental forces - magnetism. In the second episode, Jim discovers how harnessing the link between magnetism and electricity would completely transform the world, allowing us to generate a seemingly limitless amount of electric power which we could utilise to drive machines, communicate across continents and light our homes. This is the story of how scientists and engineers unlocked the nature of electricity in an extraordinary century of innovation and invention.

3) Episode 3: Revelations and Revolutions
Electricity is not just something that creates heat and light, it connects the world through networks and broadcasting. After centuries of man's experiments with electricity, the final episode tells the story of how a new age of real understanding dawned - how we discovered electric fields and electromagnetic waves. Today we can hardly imagine life without electricity - it defines our era. As our understanding of it has increased so has our reliance upon it, and today we're on the brink of a new breakthrough, because if we can understand the secret of electrical superconductivity we could once again transform the world.

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* Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
* Video Bitrate: 1636 kbps
* Video Resolution: : 720 x 416
* Video Aspect Ratio: 1.731 (16.9)
* Frames per Second: 25
* Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
* Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
* Audio Streams: 2
* Audio Languages: English
* RunTime per Part: 59mins
* Number of Parts: 3
* Part Size: 746 MB
* Ripped by: Harry65
* Source: PDTV



Links
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1) Further Information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity

2) Related Documentaries

http://docuwiki.net/?title=Electricity

http://docuwiki.net/?title=Human%20Voltage%20-%20Struck%20by%20Lightning

http://docuwiki.net/?title=Light%20Fantastic%20%28BBC%29

http://docuwiki.net/?title=Magnetism

http://docuwiki.net/?title=Living%20in%20a%20Perfect%20World

3) ed2k Links




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