The Eureka Years - Series 4 - 2008 - BBC Radio Documentary Series - cheops

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  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://radioarchive.cc/torrents-details.php?id=3231">The Eureka Years - Series 4 - 2008 - BBC Radio Documentary Series - cheops</a></span><!--bold--></span><!--underline--><br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Adam Hart-Davis</span><!--bold--> presents all four programmes from the complete <span style="font-weight: bold;">fourth series</span><!--bold--> on BBC Radio 4.<br /> <br /> In it he explores spectacular years in the long history of science, when brilliant ideas emerged from the maelstrom of mad, bad and dangerous thinking.<br /> <br /> Four episodes of approximately thirty minutes each.<br /> <br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode 1: 1650 - Coffee, Cosmology And The Civil War</span><!--bold--></span><!--underline--><br /> The country is still reeling after the execution of King Charles I as a small coffee-house opens in Oxford, the first on English soil. In the years that follow, coffee will become the preferred drink of businessmen, scientists and politicians, and fuel the discoveries of the new Age of Reason.<br /> <br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode 2: 1923 - Traffic Lights And Frozen Food </span><!--bold--></span><!--underline--><br /> Clarence Birdseye's observation that the Inuit could freeze the fish they caught and keep it fresh led to an invention which transformed both diets and economies across the world. Garrett A Morgan came up with an idea which would stop traffic.<br /> <br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode 3: 1893 - The Internal Combustion Engine</span><!--bold--></span><!--underline--><br /> Henry Ford builds his first car, Karl Benz constructs his first four-wheeler and Gottlieb Daimler succeeds in putting his new engines in horseless carriages. The internal combustion engine, hailed as the answer to London's pollution problem, is born.<br /> <br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode 4: 1879 - The Light Bulb and Moving Pictures</span><!--bold--></span><!--underline--><br /> The light bulb and the first moving pictures appeared, and a scientist did a great service to dieters when he forgot to wash his hands before eating his sandwiches.<br /> <br /> First broadcast in July/August 2008 on BBC Radio 4.<br /> _______________________<br /> <br /> Type : mpeg 1 layer III<br /> Bitrate : 128 <br /> Mode : joint stereo<br /> Frequency : 48000 Hz<br /> Encoder : Lame 3.98<br /> _______________________<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">HumaxPVR9200TB+LAME+DVB-T=MP3 </span><!--bold--> <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://cheops.fm">http://cheops.fm</a><br /> <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://radioarchive.cc">http://radioarchive.cc</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - the Spoken-Word Radio Torrent Archive</span><!--bold-->
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The Eureka Years - 1 - 1650 - Coffee, Cosmology And The Civil War.mp3	25 MB
The Eureka Years - 2 - 1923 - Traffic Lights And Frozen Food.mp3	25 MB
The Eureka Years - 3 - 1893 - The Internal Combustion Engine.mp3	25 MB
The Eureka Years - 4 - 1879 - The Light Bulb and Moving Picture.mp3	25 MB
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