James Burke : Connections, Episode 9, "Countdown", 4 of 5 (CC)

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Episode 9 of James Burke's most well-known series "Connections" which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the "connections" between various historical figures who seemingly had nothing to do with each other in their own times, however once connected, these same figures combined to produce some of the most profound impacts on our modern day world; in a "1+1=3" type of way.

It is this type of investigation that is the core idea behind the Knowledge Web project, whereby sophisticated software is being developed to attempt to discover these subtle interconnections automatically. See http://k-web.org.

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[llleogrimm]

I love you ur vids are amazing

[nguyenduclen1]

pretty cool! definitely gna subscribe.

[er10b]

@KevinByrne2 Reminds you of Conrad Poohs and his dancing teeth?

[ChorltonBrook]

Oh dear ... I found an old snooker ball buried in my garden (I live in a Victorian house). It's surface is all cracked & gone tan coloured. I left it in a tin and when I last looked at it the air inside smelled of sort of Acetone but different. Could be dangerous?

[ryoushii]

A couple of those train crashes were from staged train crashes done at the Minnesota State Fair. From the 1890's into the 1920's, at least one train crash was staged in front of the grandstand (still standing and used) for the thrill of fair goers during the Fair. It was stopped partly be the Great Depression (too expensive) and because people started to get worried about all that flying junk (yes people were sometimes hit by debris)

[Indrius]

1:27 hehehehehe

[adrastea99]

Edison simply improved on a previous invention

Yes, these ideas don't pop up in a persons head... But other people draw from a variety of other inventions and methods to make one new thing, what Edison did was draw on ONE invention, which is called plagiarism

[KevinByrne2]

Burke neglects the inventions of the zoetrope and the praxinoscope -- which provided moving images before movies.

[KevinByrne2]

@Tananjoh -- At 2:28 the march is "Under the Double Eagle" by Austrian composer Josef F. Wagner.

[Tananjoh]

Anyone who knows what march is plaiyng at 02:28?