Contributions

  • Discovery Productions, Inc - Contributor
  • Principal Film Company - Contributor
  • Ambrose Video Publishing - Contributor

Publication

2002 - Ambrose Video, New York, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

23,000 words, Guess

Page Count

92 pages

Physical Format

Video Recording

Identifiers

Alternate Titles

  • Big spin.
  • Bright ideas.
  • Making waves.
  • Routes.

Description

Tracks the links between technological invention, social history, economics, and everything. Revolutions: Explains how the steam engine led to safety matches, imitation diamonds and the moon in a wild ride. Sentimental journeys: Asks what Freud has got to do with maps, prison reform with blue dye, the inside of a star with the Himalayas, and India reveals the answers. Getting it together: Begins by examining a SWAT team, which leads to hot air ballooning, the root of many inventions. Whodunit?: Questions who stole a set of billiard balls in 1902 and why was he the most famous crook in history? The clues: maps from 1775, Charles Darwin's cousin and the FBI.

Description

"The big spin: The greatest medical accident in history starts a trail that leads to Helen of Troy, 17th century flower-power, the invention of soda pop and earthquake detection. Bright ideas: A Baltimore man invented the bottle, which led to razors, clock springs, and the Hubbell telescope. Making waves: Hairdressers, Gold Rush miners, Irish potato farmers and English parliamentarians are really tied together. Routes: A sick lawyer in 18th century France changes farming and triggers the French Revolution and new medical research."--Container.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Connections 2.: Disc 4Video RecordingAmbrose Video2002-01-01

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