Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity - Season 1 Episode 1 Spark

Name: Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Genre: Documentary
Released: 20 Oct 2011
Rating: 7.94
Cast: Jim Al-Khalili

2011-10-20 45 minutes.

7.94 16 votes

Documentary

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Season - Episode

1 Season 1 Oct 06, 2011

1 - 1

Spark Oct 06, 2011
1 - 2

The Age of Invention Oct 13, 2011
1 - 3

Revelations and Revolutions Oct 20, 2011

Overview

Episode one tells the story of the very first "natural philosophers" who started to unlock the mysteries of electricity. They studied its curious link to life, built strange and powerful instruments to create it and even tamed lightning itself. It was these men who truly laid the foundations of the modern world. Electricity was without doubt a fantastical wonder. This is the story about what happened when the first real concerted effort was made to understand electricity; how we learned to create and store it, before finally creating something that enabled us to make it at will: the battery.

Year 2011

Studio BBC Four

Director

Crew Jim Al-Khalili (Presenter)

Popularity 0.3229

Language English