- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Patrick Mulkern
Cathode ray tubes, valves, microchips, superconductors - inventions come thick and fast, at times bewilderingly so, in the final part of Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s excellent series, which shows how advancements in our understanding of electricity connected the modern world. He leads us along a path from stuffy Victorian lecture halls to the dawn of Silicon Valley, name-checking Hertz and Marconi, and extolling lesser-known figures such as British physicist Oliver Lodge and Indian pioneer Jagadish Chandra Bose, who lost out along the way.
Al-Khalili’s hands-on approach really does inspire the awe promised in the title.
About this programme
3/3. Jim Al-Khalili explains how the study of electric fields and electromagnetic waves led to breakthroughs in communications and broadcasting, creating a world more dependent than ever on electrical power. He also investigates why scientists researching electrical superconductivity believe their work could have far-reaching effects. Last in the series.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Presenter
- Jim Al-Khalili
Crew
- Director
- Alex Freeman
- Executive Producer
- Tina Fletcher-Hill
- Producer
- Alex Freeman
- Series Producer
- Steve Crabtree
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