Shock Awe The Story of Electricity

In this episode Jim shows what electricity actually is a force created by the movement of charged particles like electrons Well also show how life creates and uses it and tell the story of mankinds epic quest to do the same Well see how science learned to harness the power of electricity to build the modern world

In episode two we travel back to a world full of excitement at the discovery of electricity Jim will see how scientists finally realized that the almost supernatural phenomena of lsquoelectricity and lsquomagnetism were linked Well show that by wielding the awesome new power of electromagnetism Victorian scientists created the modern world

From radio waves bigger than a house to gamma rays smaller than the nucleus of an atom the electromagnetic spectrum is buzzing around us ndash 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 radio Xrays microwaves and a whole host of other phenomena lay at the heart of what drove and some of the great names of