Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Revolutions and Revelations
S1 E3:
From radio waves bigger than a house, to gamma rays smaller than the nucleus of an atom, the electromagnetic spectrum is buzzing around us - but until recently we have only been aware of the tiny visual part of the spectrum. Jim shows in this episode that the discovery of the light spectrum drove some of the great names of modern physics - Curie, Faraday, Planck and Einstein.