Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity (2011)

Episode Overview

In the first episode, we delve into the lives of the pioneering "natural philosophers" who began to unravel the enigma of electricity. They explored its fascinating connection to life, crafted unusual yet potent devices to generate it, and even managed to harness lightning. These early thinkers set the stage for the modern era. Electricity was truly a marvel. This narrative focuses on the initial concerted endeavors to comprehend electricity, detailing how we learned to produce and store it, culminating in the invention of the battery, which allowed us to generate it on demand.