Revelations and Revolutions

October 20, 2011
45 min
Season 1 - Episode 3: Revelations and Revolutions

Season 1 - Episode 3: Revelations and Revolutions

Revelations and Revolutions - Episode 3

Overview

Electricity is not just something that creates heat and light, it connects the world through networks and broadcasting. After centuries of man's experiments with electricity, the final episode tells the story of how a new age of real understanding dawned - how we discovered electric fields and electromagnetic waves. Today we can hardly imagine life without electricity - it defines our era. As our understanding of it has increased so has our reliance upon it, and today we're on the brink of a new breakthrough, because if we can understand the secret of electrical superconductivity we could once again transform the world.

Episode Information

TV Show

Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

Season

Season 1

Episode Number

3

Air Date

October 20, 2011

Runtime

45 minutes