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One thing leads to another and our dependence on technology. A New York City Blackout serves as example.

Follow the connections from ancient Egyptian traders all the way up to modern radar and nuclear energy. You'll make stops along the way which include money, touch stones, sailing, vacuum pumps, weather charts, and hot air balloons.

follow the connections from the battle of Hastings in 1066, through the use of gunpowder, the invention of cannon, water pumps, barometers, the telephone, and radio telescopes.

Examines the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance from the perspective of how commercialism, climate change and the Black Death influenced cultural development.

The Wheel of Fortune, traces connections from astrological knowledge in ancient Greek manuscripts, to the modern production line.

Food preservation began with the storage of edibles in bottles and led to such 19th-century inventions as air conditioning, refrigeration and the thermos bottle. Also discusses the first hand-held guns and traces the development of rocketry in this century.