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Traces the development of domestic electricity in Britain and the subsequent changes this brought about for women in the home. Uses archive film from the Electricity Development Association and the...
Three ‘experts’ give their opinions about a scientific report written by a Canadian scientist, Dr Herbert Inhaber, on ‘The Risk of Energy Production’. Shows that ‘experts’ will often disagree...
The scientist Richard Feynman tells of his 10-year fascination with Tannu Tuva, a Shangri-La on the edge of Mongolia, which very few westerners have ever seen. From Tuva came strange and beautiful stamps,...
The eight-part CUTTING EDGE series, filmed at Oxford University, examines the skills, methods and attitudes necessary to be a top scientist. Each programme looks at the ‘cutting edge’ of scientific...
Describes the various scientific groups that began to form in 17th-century England: at Gresham College, London, in 1645 and in Oxford in 1657, culminating with the founding of the Royal Society in 1660....
Looks at the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which flourished from the 1760s until 1810. The society was characterised by an interest in scientific progress with a strong element of radical politics and...
Explores experimental methodology. Examples range from Einstein’s general theory of relativity to the examination of the constituents of air and physiological tests. In terms of personalities, contrasts...
Looks at the crisis in science which calls into question many of mankind’s most basic assumptions and challenges believes whech were once thought to be unchangeable.
Challenges truths proclaimed by science, considering the possibility that in time some scientific ideas about atoms and molecules, and stars and galaxies, which superseded religious faith in heaven and hell,...
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