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Revelations and Revolution
Title
Revelations and Revolution [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.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Today we can hardly imagine life without electrical power - it defines our era. It creates human connections. It is the lifeblood of civil society. But how did we arrive here, at a place in which our understanding of electricity is matched, if not overwhelmed, by our dependence on it? Bringing the scientific history of electricity to a dramatic conclusion, this program describes how a new age dawned - how researchers discovered electric fields and electromagnetic waves. Viewers learn about the achievements of James Clerk Maxwell, Heinrich Hertz, Oliver Lodge, Jagadish Bose, William Crookes, Herbert Matare, Heinrich Welker, and others. The program also asks whether or not tomorrow might bring yet another breakthrough - because if we can understand the secret of electrical superconductivity we could once again transform the world.
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
Force Field (1:29)
Controlling Electromagnetic Energy (2:04)
Hertz (1:57)
Oliver Lodge (1:24)
Scientific Scoop (3:04)
Wave Technology Advances (2:40)
Marconi (1:30)
Bose (1:50)
Marconi Advances Project (1:52)
Controversial Patent (1:43)
Bose's Patent (1:43)
Semiconductors (2:07)
Lodge Denied Credit (1:33)
Continuing Mystery of Electricity (1:06)
Heinrich Geissler (3:20)
Developing Atomic and Electric Science (2:55)
Wimhurst Machine (0:58)
Semiconductor War (2:23)
Transistor (2:53)
Natural Transistor (2:25)
Growing Crystal (3:16)
Shockley and Silicon Valley (2:20)
Resistance (1:55)
Mercury and Resistance (1:40)
Superconductor Material Discovered (2:14)
Room Temperature Superconductors (0:59)
Electricity in History (2:23)
Credits: Revelations and Revolution: Shock and Awe- The Story of Electricity (0:44)
Videorecording number
49437s Infobase
49440 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Open University.
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