Name: Episode 1: The Life Force
Uploaded: 2023-08-03 04:48:58
Duration: 58 min 35 s
Description: What is electricity? How did the first scientists unlock its mysteries and harness its power to build the modern world? Through incredible tales of genius, triumph and disaster, learn how our understanding of electricity was transformed from “magic” into science.

Leaps of imagination. Extraordinary experiments. Maverick geniuses. This is the story of our quest to master nature’s most mysterious force.

What is electricity? How did the first scientists unlock its mysteries and harness its power to build the modern world? Through incredible tales of genius, triumph and disaster, learn how our understanding of electricity was transformed from “magic” into science.

Episode 1: The Life Force

Travel back in time to a world where electricity was new. When scientists discovered the link between electricity and magnetism—another fundamental force of nature—it transformed the world, allowing us to generate a seemingly limitless amount of electric power.

Episode 2: Power & Attraction

After centuries of experimenting with electricity, the discovery of electric fields and electromagnetic waves ushered in a new age of understanding. Uncover the range of frequencies along the electromagnetic spectrum: from huge radio waves to microscopic gamma rays.