Connections
Subtitle: 1-2 : an alternative view of change
By: by James Burke ; a BBC TV/Time-Life Film co-production ; produced by Mick Jackson and David Kennard
Contributors: British Broadcasting Corporation; Time-Life Films; Ambrose Video Publishing
Series: Connections -- 1-2; BBC classics
Publisher: Ambrose Video Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Modern Civilization; Technology and civilization; Technology; History; Technological innovations; Inventions; Electric power failures; Coinage; Precious metals; Compass; Atomic bomb; Civilization; Alexandrian Library
Other titles: Connections 1.; Trigger effect.; Death in the morning.
Description: A series presenting science as a detective story illustrating the connections between events of the past and inventions of the future. Part 1: Beginning in Egypt the program explains how plowing, building, writing, taxation, and astronomy began and how they became interdependent. Man's present dependence on complex technological networks is illustrated with a reconstruction of the New York City power blackout of 1965. The program ends in Kuwait, a nation which has moved from the technology of ancient Egypt to the modern world in a single generation. Part 2: Traces the connections between standardization of precious metals used in coins, the great commercial center and library built by Alexander the Great, development of the compass and creation of the atomic bomb.
Notes: Videodisc release of the 1988 television series.

Written and presented by James Burke.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The trigger effect (52 min.); title: Pt. 2. Death in the morning (52 min.)