Connections
Season 2, Episode 3: Getting it Together
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James Burke explains the relationship between hot air balloons and laughing gas, and goes on to surgery, hydraulic-water gardens, hydraulic rams, tunneling through the Alps, the Orient Express, nitroglycerin, heart attacks and headaches, aspirin, carbolic acid, disinfectants, Maybach-Gottlieb Daimler-Mercedes, carburetors, helicopters, typewriters, punch cards, and IBM.
All Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1
Revolutions
Episode 2
Sentimental Journeys
Episode 3
Getting it Together
Episode 4
Whodunit?
Episode 5
Something for Nothing
Episode 6
Echoes of the Past
Episode 7
Photo Finish
Episode 8
Separate Ways
Episode 9
High Times
Episode 10
Deja Vu
Episode 11
New Harmony
Episode 12
Hot Pickle
Episode 13
The Big Spin
Episode 14
Bright Ideas
Episode 15
Making Waves
Episode 16
Routes
Episode 17
One Word
Episode 18
Sign Here
Episode 19
Better Than the Real Thing
Episode 20
Flexible Response