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Title:

High time [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:

Big Ben (Tower clock)
Clocks and watches--History.
Dyes and dyeing--History.
Furniture, Dutch colonial.
Inventions--History.
Inventors--History.
Polyethylene.
Printing--History.
Radar--Antennas.
Soap.
Tapestry--France--History.
Technology and civilization.
Telescopes--History
Whaling--History.

Other Authors:

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

Other Titles:

High times.

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. Title on container and label: High times.

Summary:

Part of a series exploring the origins and effects of inventions that shaped the modern world. This episode examines the circuitous connection between the development of polyethylene and Big Ben, the clock atop the English House of Commons. Also explored are the development of radar, fatty acids, soap, color dyes, impressionist paintings, tapestries, lacquerwork, the Dutch-East India Company, whaling, printing and the development of the telescope.

Series:

Connections 2 ; 9

OCLC:

(OCoLC)30825801

Locations:

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