Episodes

10 episodes in this season

Feedback

52 min

What's in a Name

52 min

Drop the Apple

52 min

An Invisible Object

52 min

Life is No Picnic

52 min

Elementary Stuff

52 min

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A Special Place

52 min

Fire from the Sky

52 min

Hit the Water

52 min

E10

In Touch

52 min

Connections

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A Special Place

Season 3 · Episode 7 · Jan 1, 1997

Professor Sir Alec Jeffries of Leicester University in England develops DNA profiling and schlieren photography used by Theodore von Karman to study aerodynamics and Anthony Fokker's airborne machine guns and the Red Baron and geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen and Johann Gottfried Herder's romantic ideas that start in Italy and paintings of actors and lighthouses and the War of Jenkins' Ear and Spanish gold and Alexander Monro and William Cheselden's skeleton drawings and astronomical poetry by friends of fishing aficionados who write books and Charles Cotton and sceptical wine-drinkers called Michel Eyquem, and Edward Jenner's cure for smallpox and J.J. Audubon and American bird painters and devious Russian real estate deals, and as a result in 1872, America gets a special place, the first national park, Yellowstone.

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Connections

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A Special Place

Season 3 · Episode 7 · Jan 1, 1997

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