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Title:

Separate ways [videorecording] / written and presented by James Burke.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Ambrose Video Publishing,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

1 videocassette (25 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Barbed wire.
Cadmium industry.
Canned foods--History.
Coin design--History.
Electroplating--History.
Inventions--History.
Inventors--History.
Iron, Galvanized--History.
Mass spectrometry--History
Nuclear weapons--United States--History.
Slave trade--Caribbean Area--History.
Sugar--History.
Technology and civilization.
Wire.

Other Authors:

Burke, James, 1936-
Sattin, Richard.
Slee, Mike.
Discovery Productions, Inc.
Principal Film Company.

Notes:

"A presentation of Discovery Productions in association with James Burke and The Principal Film Company, UK."--Container. "Created especially for the Learning Channel"--Container. In series title "2" is superscript.

Summary:

Part of a series exploring the origins and effects of inventions that shaped the modern world. This episode follows two trails that begin with the split over slavery in the 18th century and come together again in the technology which resulted in the development of atomic weapons. Our route features the development of wire, canned foods, cadmium, the minting of coins, electroplating, mass spectronomy and finally the Manhattan Project.

Series:

Connections 2 ; 8

OCLC:

(OCoLC)30825712

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)