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Title:

Connections [videorecording] : an alternative view of change / a BBC TV/Time Life co-production ; written and produced by James Burke ; produced by Mick Jackson and David Kennard.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

Ambrose Video,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

5 videodiscs (ca. 520 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Inventions--History.
Technology and civilization--History.
Technology--History.
Documentary films.

Other Authors:

Burke, James, 1936-
Jackson, Mick,
Kennard, David.
Ambrose Video Publishing.
British Broadcasting Corporation.
Time-Life Films.

Other Titles:

Trigger effect.
Death in the morning.
Distance voices.
Faith in numbers.
Wheel of fortune.
Thunder in the skies.
Long chain.
Eat, drink, and be merry.
Countdown.
Yesterday, tommorow, and you.

Notes:

Videodisc release of the 1988 television series.

Contents:

Vol. 1. The trigger effect -- Vol. 2. Death in the morning -- Vol. 3. Distance voices -- Vol. 4. Faith in numbers -- Vol. 5. The wheel of fortune -- Vol. 6. Thunder in the skies -- Vol. 7. The long chain. -- Vol. 8. Eat, drink, and be merry -- Vol. 9. Countdown -- Vol. 10. Yesterday, tomorrow, and you.

Summary:

Tracking through 12,000 years of history in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, James Burke shows how past events and technologies led to modern inventions, such as the atomic bomb, engines, electric lamps, telecommunications, the computer, refrigeration, the production line, jets, plastics, rocketry, and movies.

Series:

The BBC classics

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48788178

Locations:

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)