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The Age of Invention
Title
The Age of Invention [electronic resource (video)] / Open University.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], c2012.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (59 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 15, 2012.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Once a subject of crude experiments and parlor tricks, electricity was recognized some 200 years ago as a force that could completely transform the world - driving machines, lighting homes, and enabling us to communicate across continents. This program shows how scientists and engineers unlocked the power of electricity in an extraordinary century of innovation and invention. It profiles scientists who discovered the links between electricity and magnetism as well as other fundamental concepts - Hans Christian Oersted, Michael Faraday, William Sturgeon, Joseph Henry, and others. The development of commercial applications is discussed with segments on Samuel Morse, the story of the 1866 transatlantic cable, and the "war of currents" rivalry between Thomas Edison's DC and Nikola Tesla's AC, championed by George Westinghouse.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
6 & up.
Contents
Faraday's Early Scientific Career (2:40)
Ørsted's Discovery & Faraday's Proof of Electromagnetic Force (2:44)
Creating Electrical Power from Mechanical Power (3:51)
Electromagnets & the Telegraph (3:35)
Morse Code & Possibilities of Telegraph (0:57)
Failure of First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable (3:12)
Understanding Electricity & Improving Transatlantic Cable (3:04)
Before the Light Bulb: Gas Lighting & Arc Lights (2:11)
Thomas Edison & Menlo Park Laboratory (2:10)
Developing Incandescent Light Bulbs (3:34)
Edison's DC Voltage System on Wall St. (2:29)
Successes & Shortcomings of Edison's Generator System (3:33)
Nikola Tesla (1:50)
Tesla's Alternating Current System (1:43)
Tesla's Partnership with Westinghouse & Further AC Innovation (3:45)
"War of the Currents" (2:17)
Edison's Safety Campaign (1:47)
Harold Brown's Lethal Experiments in War of the Currents (2:01)
Brown, Edison, & the Electric Chair (0:55)
Triumph of Tesla's AC System (2:33)
Tesla's Demise (2:48)
Electricity Today (1:17)
Credits: The Age of Invention: Shock and Awe - The Story of Electricity (0:44)
Videorecording number
49437s Infobase
49439 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Open University.
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