In reply to "|--Spike=-" who wrote the following:
> I downloaded this series towards the end of 2014 from 'teevee', it
> was/is a 6 part series from PBS.
> Steven Johnson was also the main man.
> The episodes were/are labeled and described...
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> Part 1: Clean
> Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history
> combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas,
> extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world.
> Steven Johnson plunges into a sewer to understand what made a maverick
> engineer decide to lift the city of Chicago with jackscrews in order
> without authorization, he added chlorine, considered lethal in 1908,
> flat screen TVs and even the two piece swimsuit are the result of the
> valiant efforts of the unsung heroes of clean.
>
>
> Part 2: Time
> Board a submarine with Steven Johnson to discover what a lack of
> control. The story of getting a grip on time is full of curious garage
> tinkerers. One of them, railway clerk William F. Allen, was so
> exasperated by the chaos caused by the hundreds of local times zones
> in the U.S. that he fought tirelessly to standardize time into four
> zones. Learn how advancements in navigation, the way we work,
> technology and travel would have been impossible without the unsung
> heroes of time.
>
>
> Part 3: Glass
> Join Steven Johnson and consider how the invention of the mirror
> spurred on the Renaissance, how glass lenses allow us to reveal worlds
> within worlds and how, deep beneath the ocean, glass is essential to
> communication. Johnson learns about the daring exploits of glassmakers
> who were forced to work under threat of the death penalty, a physics
> teacher who liked to fire molten glass from a crossbow and a scientist
> whose tinkering with a glass lens allowed 600 million people to see a
> man set foot on the moon. The link between the worlds of art, science,
> astronomy, disease prevention and global communication starts with the
> little-known maverick innovators of glass.
>
>
> Part 4: Light
> Steven Johnson relates the story of people who take us out of the dark
> actually invent, and learn how an 18th-century shipping community
> head. See how a French scientist accidentally discovered how to create
> neon light, leading to a revolution in advertising. Dispelling the
> and collaboration led the way to the most transformative ideas.
> spectator sports, revolutionizing how global business is done or
> triggering one of the great social reforms in American history, the
> pioneers of light have made themselves indispensable throughout human
> history.
>
>
> Part 5: Cold
Spike wrote thus:-
> Why is this now labelled BBC/2015 and has lost an episode ?
Usually it's because the BBC use 60min programs (no adverts) and the Americans
use 43/45mins, allowing for adverts.
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