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Connections : an alternative view of change /

Tracking through 12,000 years of history in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, James Burke shows how past events and technologies led to modern inventions, such as the atomic bomb, engines, electric lamps, telecommunications, the computer, refrigeration, the production line, jets, plast...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Ambrose Video Publishing, British Broadcasting Corporation, Time-Life Films
Other Authors: Burke, James, 1936-, Jackson, Mick, Kennard, David
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: New York : Ambrose Video, [2001]
Series:BBC classics.
Subjects:
Inventions > History.
Technology and civilization > History.
Technology > History.
Documentary films.
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Summary:Tracking through 12,000 years of history in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, James Burke shows how past events and technologies led to modern inventions, such as the atomic bomb, engines, electric lamps, telecommunications, the computer, refrigeration, the production line, jets, plastics, rocketry, and movies.
Item Description:Title from disc label.
Videodisc release of the 1988 television series.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:5 videodiscs (approximately 520 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD.
Awards:"Winner of the Red Ribbon in the American Film Festival"--Container.
Production Credits:Photographer, David Feig, Tony Pierce-Roberts ; film editor, Paul Carter.