Quirky Science
aktuálne záležitosti, politika, E4, S1606131825, 2015
Wow, I Never Knew That!
S01E05 It's the city of love, Paris, France. The world over knows its most famous structure, the Eiffel Tower! But did you know PARISIANS originally wanted to tear it down! We'll explain why and how it was saved! Then, you'll visit America's FIRST PIZZERIA! And how the gourmet ice cream HAAGEN DAZS got its exotic start in Bronx New York!
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Beschreibung
E04 A man with an ear for music, one of the first to try teaching the deaf how to speak, thought he could build a "harmonic telegraph". He had this idea that several notes could travel through a wire simultaneously, instead of the one Morse code that the telegraph could transmit. He thought this to be possible because he misinterpreted the writings of a researcher writing in German - a language he did not know. - And would later describe his misinterpretation as a "very valuable blunder". The man was Alexander Graham Bell and he invented telephony. The big question is: what happens in that wire? How can voices travel? Bell and his assistant eventually proved that different tones would vary the strength of an electric current in a wire. In fact, it's the vibrations of the voice that determine the strength of the current. His invention caused a lot of fuss - yet it took years before people comprehended the scale of it: before the widespread use of the phone - whom were you going...
TV Zäitplang
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Dënschdeg, 00:30 | Quirky Science |
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Samschdeg, 00:30 | Quirky Science |
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Samschdeg, 18:25 | Quirky Science |
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Samschdeg, 18:55 | Quirky Science |
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Sonndeg, 18:25 | Quirky Science |
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Sonndeg, 18:55 | Quirky Science |