Connections

Season 2 Episode 3: Getting it Together

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

3

Episodes:

40

Cast:

James Burke

Quality:

HD

Duration:

22 min

First Air:

1978

Rating:

8.2