Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Chapters: Local Heroes, Connections, Egypt, Around the World in 80 Treasures, People's Century, Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Meet the Ancestors, Fame in the 20th Century, Pandora's Box, Space Race, Horror in the East, Tory! Tory! Tory!, What the Ancients Did for Us, Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, Nile, Nuclear Secrets, Egyptian Journeys with Dan Cruickshank, The Story of Maths, Civilisation, Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain, A History of Britain, What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us, Dunkirk, Heroes and Villains, What the Romans Did for Us, Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, The Story of India, A History of Horror, The Supersizers..., Battlefield Britain, Pompeii: The Last Day, Light Fantastic, The Century of the Self, Our Top Ten Treasures, The Somme ¿ From Defeat to Victory, Hadrian, The Ascent of Man, Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', A History of Scotland, Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain, What the Stuarts Did for Us, Blood of the Vikings, 20th Century Battlefields, Montezuma, Restoration, Wild New World, The Museum, The Atheism Tapes, The Worst Journey in the World, What the Tudors Did for Us, Digging for Britain, The Celts, Krakatoa: The Last Days, Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage, Terry Jones' Barbarians, Days That Shook the World, James May's 20th Century, Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death, Racism: A History, A History of Christianity, What the Victorians Did for Us, Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, The Death of Yugoslavia, Boats that Built Britain, Crusades, Last Day of World War One, Britain's Best Buildings, Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery, Earth: The Power of the Planet, Timewatch, The American Future: A History, BBC History of World War II, Building the Great Pyramid, Invasion, To Shatter the Sky, The Art of Spain, The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon, Sea of Faith, The Lost World of Friese-Greene, Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's, 9/11: The Twin Towers, The Lost World of Tibet, War of the Century, Ancient Inventions, The Victoria Cross: For Valour, The Art of Eternity, The Nazis: A Warning from History, Hiroshima, Marvels of the Modern Age, Towering Ambitions: Dan Cruickshank at Ground Zero, Francesco's Venice, Dickens in America, Science and Islam, War Walks, The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion, Vietnam: The Camera At War, Chemistry: A Volatile History, What Did You Do in the Great War, Daddy?, Soldiers, A History of Men in Battle. Excerpt: Connections is a ten-episode documentary television series created, written and presented by science historian James Burke. The series was produced and directed by Mick Jackson of the BBC Science & Features Department and first aired in 1978 (UK) and 1979 (USA). It took an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention and demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively in an interconnected way to bring about particular aspects of modern technology. The series was noted for Burke's crisp and enthusiastic presentation (and dry humour), historical reenactments, and intricate working models. The popular success of the series led to the production of The Day the Universe Changed, a similar program but showing a more linear history of several important scientific developments. Years later the success in syndication led to two sequels, Connections² (1994) and Co...
