20 épisodes
(16 h 40 min)
Épisodes
S2 E1 • Revolutions
Discover how the steam engine led to safety matches, imitation diamonds and the moon in a wild ride.
Première diffusion : 31 décembre 1994
S2 E2 • Sentimental Journeys
What has Freud got to do with maps? Or prison reform with blue dye? Or the inside of a star with the Himalayas? India reveals the answers.
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S2 E3 • Getting It Together
Start by examining a SWAT team, which leads to hot air ballooning, the root of many inventions.
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S2 E4 • Whodunit?
Who stole a set of billiard balls in 1902 and why was he the most famous crook in history? The clues: maps from 1775, Charles Darwin's cousin and the FBI.
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S2 E5 • Something for Nothing
Something impossible happened 400 years ago. And we wound up in outer space, thanks (en route) to pigeon lovers, the Pope, and electric Italian frogs.
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S2 E6 • Echoes of the Past
On his way to finding the secret of the universe, Burke takes us to the Buddhist tea ceremony, ties it to international spies and Lincoln's assassination.
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S2 E7 • Photo Finish
The Le Mans 24-hour race is the backdrop for linking photography and bullets, relativity and blimps.
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S2 E8 • Separate Ways
Two trails split over slavery in the 18th Century. One route leads to the Wild West and Brooklyn Bridge, the other coining money and TV. Both end with a threat to peace.
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S2 E9 • High Time
Unwrap a sandwich and you're on a path to World War II radar and Neo-Impressionist painters.
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S2 E10 • Déjà Vu
History repeats itself, when you know how to look. Pizzaro beats the Incas, the first stock market opens. The Queen of England salutes a Mexican beetle and Hitler's plans misfire.
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S2 E11 • New Harmony
Microscopic bugs inspired the novel "Frankenstein" which aided the birth of Socialism.
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S2 E12 • Hot Pickle
The connections between a cup of tea, opium dens, the London Zoo and a switch that releases bombs.
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S2 E13 • The Big Spin
The greatest medical accident in history starts a trail that leads to Helen of Troy, 17th Century flower-power, the invention of soda pop and earthquake detection.
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S2 E14 • Bright Ideas
A Baltimore man invented the bottle, which led to razors and clock springs, and the Hubble telescope.
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S2 E15 • Making Waves
Hairdressers, Gold Rush miners, Irish potato farmers and English parliamentarians are really tied together.
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S2 E16 • Routes
A sick lawyer in 18th Century France changes farming and triggers the French Revolution and new medical research.
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S2 E17 • One Word
One medieval word kicks off the investigation into different cultures with the same stories that ends in cultural anthropology.
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S2 E18 • Sign Here
Dutch piracy starts international law and French probability math, phonetics and Victorian séances.
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S2 E19 • Better Than the Real Thing
How the zipper started with technology Jefferson picked up in Paris during a row about Creation.
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S2 E20 • Flexible Response
Robin Hood starts us on a trail from medieval showbiz to land drainage, to the invention of decimals that end up in U.S. currency, thanks to the guy who started the Erie Canal.
Première diffusion : 31 décembre 1994
