Connections 2.
Subtitle: Disc 5
By: written & presented by James Burke ; director, Mike Slee ; producer, Richard Sattin ; a presentation of Discovery Productions in association with James Burke and the Principal Film Company, UK
Contributors: Discovery Productions, Inc; Principal Film Company; Ambrose Video Publishing
Publisher: Ambrose Video
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Inventions; History; Technology and civilization
Other titles: One word.; Sign here.; Better than the real thing.; Flexible response.
Description: "One word: One medieval word kicks off the investigation into different cultures with the same stories that ends in cultural anthropology. Sign here: Dutch piracy starts international law and French probability math, phonetics, and Victorian seances. Better than the real thing: How the zipper started with technology Jefferson picked up in Paris during a row about creation. Flexible response: Robin Hood starts us on a trail from medieval showbiz to land drainage, to the invention of decimals that end up in U.S. currency, thanks to the guy who started the Erie Canal."--Container.
Notes: Program content c1994.

DVD.

Optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: One word; title: Sign here; title: Better than the real thing; title: Flexible response.