HOME
NEW SHOWS
ALL SHOWS
RELEASE LIST
DAILY SHOWS
ALL SHOWS
SUPPORT
HELP CENTER
FAQ's
TERMS OF USE
CONTACT US
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MOBILE
LOGIN
SIGNUP
MY ACCOUNT
LOGOUT
Home
TV Series
Connections
Season 3
Browse By
Title
/
Genre
Browse All
#
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
Action & Adventure
Science-Fiction
Documentary
Animation
Mini-Series
Children
Family
Crime
Special Interest
Reality
Western
Sport
Soap
Adventure
Romance
Science Fiction
Action
Mystery
Suspense
Thriller
History
Horror
Food
British
Home & Garden
News
Talk Show
Travel
Anime
Musical
Mini-series
Game Show
War
Martial Arts
AnimationComedy
Nature
Science
Paranormal
Docuseries
Biography
Non-fiction
BROWSING SEASON 3 OF THE TV SERIES CONNECTIONS
Connections - Feedback
Season 3 - Episode 1
Show Description
In the twenty-first century, electronic agents will be our servants on the great web of knowledge. They will use the kind of feedback that won World War II. Feedback mathematics is invented to help guns hit their targets. The concept of feedback originated in the vineyards of France by a winemaker and physiologist named Claude Bernard. His ex-wife began the Humane Society, created to save people from drowning. Drownings increased due to an increase in shipping. All of this eventually leads to the hiring of a doctor at a sanitarium in Michigan. The doctor tries out new diets on the patients. The most successful product is named after him -- Kelloggs cornflakes.
WATCH EPISODE (HTML5)
Connections - Whats in a Name?
Season 3 - Episode 2
Show Description
A good breakfast leads to corn cob garbage by the ton. This is used for "furfan," and a whole new discipline no ones heard about, called furfan chemistry. Furfan can do amazing things, like creating resin for bonding. This leads to the creation of the tractor and, then the creation of the diesel engine. Believe it or not, James Burke shows how this all leads to the creation of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
WATCH EPISODE (HTML5)
Connections - Drop the Apple
Season 3 - Episode 3
Show Description
Smithson, the benefactor of the Smithsonian Institution, discovered the mineral calamine. This mineral is one of the most useful and unusual because it gives off electricity. The secret is in the shape. This was discovered by J. Currie of the famous pair. The first consumer use of this electricity was 33 rpm records. This eventually leads to Albert Einsteins Theory of Relativity, which leads to the creation of the atomic bomb.
WATCH EPISODE (HTML5)
Connections - An Invisible Object
Season 3 - Episode 4
Show Description
This program travels five hundred years into the past and back, to connect mysterious black holes in space with modern fast food, via thrills and spills on the Pony Express, Italian anatomy theaters and stolen corpses, the Sultan of Turkeys disastrous finances, Renaissance German jewelry, the invention of the screw, slide rules and American tobacco plantations, boiled potatoes, Spanish Inquisition thumbscrews, and why beer is served chilled. The show also includes a French Queens dinner party, Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, the greatest disaster in history (for wine-drinkers), squeaky-clean Swiss airplanes, and a fifteenth century French barber-shop quartet.
WATCH EPISODE (HTML5)
Connections - Life is No Picnic
Season 3 - Episode 5
Show Description
The advent of modern coffee-vending machines spurs the creation of freeze dried coffee. This begins a revolutionary effort by the U.S. Army in World War II to lighten the soldiers rations packs. The Star Spangled Banner lyrics are adapted from an ancient Greek poem. Mme de Stael of Switzerland drives the Romantic Movement forward in Europe. The Romantic Movement affects all thinkers which leads to future studies of animal development. Based on this research, Darwin proposes his Theory of Evolution.
WATCH EPISODE (HTML5)
Connections - Elementary Stuff
Season 3 - Episode 6
Show Description
Darwins Theory of Evolution is shared by Alfred Russel Wallace who has a strong belief in miracles and spiritualism. British interest in spiritualism is shared by physicist Oliver Lodge who develops the coherer, the device that makes radio reception possible. With the Swiss creation of postage stamp, Switzerland becomes the world postal center. Highlanders fearing oppression from Scottish rulers flee to North Carolina where turpentine is developed. The creation of the vacuum pump is instrumental in the discovery of both Boyles Law and Pierre Perraults hydrography. Quarrels about whether or not present language/literature is as good as that of the past leads to the fictional character Sherlock Holmes.
WATCH EPISODE (HTML5)
Connections - A Special Place
Season 3 - Episode 7
Show Description
Meet a real live man who changed history with a totally new way of identifying you. Plus a four hundred-year trip through 20 locations. Swedish electricity and Dutch wind tunnels use a new type of photography. Aristocratic World War I fighter aces and their crazy mountain-climbing uncles. Touchy-feely times in Romantic Germany. The mysteries of ancient cities uncovered. Female painters in eighteenth-century London theaters lit by amazing new kinds of lights. Saving sailors from shipwreck and helping Caribbean smugglers. Astronomers, poets, fishermen, mathematicians and skeptics, bird-painters and Russian skullduggery lead the program to a final beauty-spot, where hundreds of Americans get drenched every day.
WATCH EPISODE (HTML5)
Connections - Fire from the Sky
Season 3 - Episode 8
Show Description
How do you go from the majestic beauty of Icelands geysers to the destruction of the Allied Firebombing of Hamburg in World War II? You stop by Stonehenge, chat with the mystical Caballists, talk to Martin Luther, Ozeander, Tycho Brahe and Mary Queen of Scots, before heading to the magnetic North Pole. The invention of gin and tonic will set you back on course to the discovery that mixing rubber with gasoline makes it burn slower, an integral component of any firebombing. Its all a matter of connections.
WATCH EPISODE (HTML5)
Connections - Hit the Water
Season 3 - Episode 9
Show Description
If you launch your story in the cockpit of a Tornado Fighter Bomber-- the height of "smart bombs" operated by smart pilots -- dip into the history of margarine and plankton, travel to 18th Century Turkey to investigate small pox inoculations, dance at the ballet Copelia, then blow up a dam in Norway with a British commando team, how do you prevent Hitler from building and exploding atomic bombs? Through the infinite world of unexpected connections - an ingenious look at why and how Hitler never harnessed heavy water and the A-Bomb.
WATCH EPISODE (HTML5)
Connections - In Touch
Season 3 - Episode 10
Show Description
An American scientist ponders the problem of nuclear fusion in 1951. This unleashes a series of connections that encompass superconductors, the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, King George III, modern oceanography, the Versailles Gardens, Pagoda Mania, and handwriting analysis to arrive at the Global Net. Through this chain of unexpected connections, you, too, can "stay in touch."
WATCH EPISODE (HTML5)
FAQ's
ABOUT US
USERS GUIDE
SUBSCRIPTION INFO
TERMS OF SERVICE
BLOCKED ACCOUNTS
HOW DO I CANCEL?
REFUNDS
TOP TV SHOWS
TRUE BLOOD
BREAKING BAD
THE OFFICE
NCIS
HOUSE
WEEDS
LOST
NEWEST TV SERIES
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Pacific
The Tudors
Top Gear
Glee
The Cleveland Show
WATCH ON...
Windows
MAC OS X
IPhone
IPad
Windows Mobile
Support Center 7/24
Help Center
Use Your Favorite Browser
COPYRIGHT @ 2006-2016
IN2STREAMS.COM
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
HOME
|
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
|
FAQ
|
CONTACT US
|
TERMS OF USE
|
PRIVACY STATEMENT