Season 1 (1997)

Feedback
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January 1, 1997

Electronic agents on the internet and wartime guns use feedback techniques discovered in the first place by Claude Bernard, whose ...Read more

What's in a Name
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January 1, 1997

Remember the cornflakes from last episode? Because corncobs make adhesives to bond carborundum discovered by Edward Goodrich Aches...Read more

Drop the Apple
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January 1, 1997

At the Smithsonian, we learn of electric crystals that help Pierre and Marie Curie discover what they call radium, and then Langev...Read more

An Invisible Object
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January 1, 1997

Black holes in space, seen by the Hubble Telescope, brought into space with hydrazine fuel, which was a byproduct of fungicides fo...Read more

Life is No Picnic
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January 1, 1997

Instant coffee gets off the ground in World War II and Jeeps lead to nylons and stocking machines smashed by Luddites, who were de...Read more

Elementary Stuff
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January 1, 1997

Alfred Russel Wallace, who studied beetles, Oliver Lodge and telegraphy, a radio designed by Reginald Fessenden, which was used by...Read more

A Special Place
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January 1, 1997

Professor Sir Alec Jeffries of Leicester University in England develops DNA profiling and schlieren photography used by Theodore v...Read more

Fire from the Sky
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January 1, 1997

Due to continental drift and Alfred Wegener's passion for mirages, magic images from the sister of King Arthur, whose chivalry sup...Read more

Hit the Water
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January 1, 1997

Thanks to napalm, made with palm oil, also used for margarine, stiffened with a process using kieselguhr that comes from plankton ...Read more

In Touch
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January 1, 1997

Starting from an attempt for cheaper fusion power using superconductivity, which was discovered by Onnes, with liquid gas provided...Read more