Out of the Fiery Furnace - Episode 6 - From Alchemy to the Atom
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มี.ค. 2016
- From the Stone Age to the era of the silicon chip - metals and minerals have marked the milestones of our civilization. OUT OF THE FIERY FURNACE traces the story of civilization through the exploitation of metals, minerals and energy resources. Renowned radio and BBC television commentator Michael Charlton hosts seven, one-hour programs filmed in more than 50 different parts of the world. This very unusual public television series combines the disciplines of history, science, archeology and economics in order to explore the relationship between technology and society.
Man's curiosity about the nature of metals has produced the discovery of electricity, magnetism, the invention of household lights, and the science of geology. This episode focuses on the works of such legendary scientists as Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison and the Curies as they search for clues to the secrets of metals - even to the point of unlocking the awesome forces within the atom. (60 minutes)
Download full video (MP4), subtitles and original VHS cover art (859MB): tinyurl.com/outoffieryfurnace...
Disclaimer: This video series, produced in 1986 by Opus Films is shown here for Educational Purposes. It includes footage of cultures in India, China, Near East, etc. and ancient methods of manufacturing metals. It is hoped that this information is useful for archival and educational purposes to viewers all across the world. The video is provided here under the Fair Use policy. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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This documentary series was made two decades before I was born and it shows in the high quality, attention to detail, the objective and factual presentation, and the professional almost thespian style of the presenter. Amazing and easily better than most documentaries made today.
What a great series this is, I’m really enjoying it. Yes, it’s a bit outdated, but it was made 40 years ago.
Remind
s me of High school in Sweden. I wonder if I have not seen this series in a combination between our english language classes and science dito which it is perfect for.
Best Documentary so far. The man who actually did try to give it to the world was Mr. Tesla 👍🏼
It is a shame that Tesla received no mention for his contributions to the age of electricity in this video. It is Tesla's alternating current that is the basis of the civilized world, not the direct current model championed by Franklin but ultimately not practical on scale.
Through years of education from Poland education system (till 1976) I had known Tesla as a unit of the strength of magnetic field only. Now, I have also learnt that Deisel was a person.
This ought to be in every middle school in the U.S. Europe probably already has done this since the series came out on PAL/VHS.
But we live in the decedent west, there are too many white men in this production for today's marxist teachers.
stavo lukos: you sound like a socialist, worrying.
At 35:00 Edison got credit for electricity and lighting up 80 lite bulbs. Then it is left like that is how everyone OWES IT TO EDISON. Ed was using DC power. The most he could light up was 4 city blocks...then the power was too weak to go farther.. No mention is given to Nicola Tesla, the inventor of A.C. power which lights the whole world. Light bulbs are a simple mechanical device....run enough current through the wire, and it glows.
. Tesla also designed the boosting stations that would carry AC for thousands of miles.. The transformers
.Eddy was DC (which is what is in every car)
. Tesla is AC (which ran everything else) Tesla gets no credit at all. Edison tried to discredit Tesla's AC power as being dangerous. More dangerous than DC power. Tesla was a genius, just bad at marketing his ideas. So he died poor.
The internet cult of tesla still grows stong.lol
Tesla didnt invent ac power.
Ac electricity existed before tesla was even born amd yet the cult followers of tesla insist that he TESLA invented it.
Slap yourself for being tricked by an internet cult.
BunzeeBear back ye Tesla fiends
@@goodfella7393 I heard someone saying recently, Nikolai Tesla was never given enough credit, to which I replied with the query: have you ever heard of Michael Faraday or James Clerk Maxwell? Of course the reply was no.
Actually Edison's number of original ideas that found utility far exceed those of Tesla!
Remarkable videos by Michael Charlton. Such a pleasure to watch. Somewhere there must exist a better quality tape. I hope it can be restored to its original high resolution quality. I am sure that Charlton would not have approved the final 10 minute interview with an incoherent Rustum Roy by the series producer.
I have re-uploaded the whole series on my channel if anybody's having trouble watching.
Why is it that Tesla is ignored so intensely? Heck in school I was taught that Marconi invented the radio when in fact Telsla was reluctantly given credit years before? Where would our would be if not for his inventions?
WOW ! It is possible to upload real quality vids here .
1st Class all the way !
THANX
Love works
In 1983 ,the year of this ole doco series,,Tesla was yet to be appreciated as he is today.It`s still fun to watch though . better than most stuff on current TV...
The part about madam curie is great
To an extent similar to the US at Bikini Atoll, Frances 'independent Nuclear armory' was developed at extreme hazard, inconvenience and economic damage to several Pacific nations but most notably at Muroa Atoll.
Britain also conducted all it's tests on foreign soil, in Australia.
Loud music ruins it.
edison - the world's greatest plagiarist
Ending is total BS. He's coompletely ignoring the vast budgets of military and private industry research, ALL of which goes to "practical" applications.
Old. Boring. Ponderous.
Maybe, but it has actual information. Unlike documentaries of today with quick cuts, "fancy" camera angles and constant repetition of a few bits of info to make 15 minutes of info into a 90 min. documentary.
Fine, why don’t you make a better documentary series on this subject? Let’s see how yours turns out.
@@kimberlyperrotis8962 Fine! Maybe I will. Nyah! …and that.