OT. James Burke, Connections

James Burke hosted the TV show years ago. He'd show a modern item then go through all the things that had to come together to make it possible. One I remember was a sports car. It still had a carburetor so he explained the Venturi effect. This link leads to a few of the programs.

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It would be interesting to resurrect someone like Alessandro Volta to see his reaction to the things his discovery led to. Plop him down in a modern car with a cell phone, for example.

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Dean Hoffman
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It would be interesting to resurrect someone like Alessandro Volta to see his reaction to the things his discovery led to. Plop him down in a modern car with a cell phone, for example.

Connections was a dumbed down version of his earlier circus style live popular science show "The Burke Special" which ran on BBC from 72-76.

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It was for its time very good indeed although not up to the standards of the flagship BBC science show "Horizon". Most episodes are lost.

He was an impressive narrator and science anchorman for the BBC Apollo moon landing programmes together with Patrick Moore (who *really* speaks fast), copresenter with Raymond Baxter on Tomorrow's World before that.

He had stopped doing space flight stuff by the time the Space Shuttle was flown and it became clear just how useless his replacement was when the guy became lost for words as the shuttle first came in to land.

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Martin Brown

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