Horizon

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  • BBC Two
  • 21
  • Documentary

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1965
1965x1
Learning from Machines
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Horizon looks into the principles behind machines and investigates why they are so successful.
1965x2
The Technique of Change
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Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of the most important research and development centers where more than 4000 scientists work with a budget of one .. show full overview
1965x3
Star Gazers
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Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the universe and learn how stars are created.
1965x4
Science and Art
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Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores artists attitudes towards science.
1965x5
The Great Computer Scandal
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Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, Horizon looks at the H-Bomb Detectors and how British scientists have developed a nuclear explosion detector .. show full overview
1965x6
Faster, Farther, Higher
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The episode was shot from a biplane taking off and flying over the CERN Nuclear Physics Laboratory in Switzerland. Colin Riach interviews Dr. Lipman from the Rutherford High Energy .. show full overview
1965x7
Restless Genius
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A tribute by Professor E. N. da C. Andrade to Robert Hooke architect, astronomer, geologist, and meteorologist who discovered the cell, the unit of living tissue, in plants 300 years .. show full overview
1965x8
Other Side of the Pill
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Horizon considers the safety of 'The pill'.
1965x9
The Big Smoke
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Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scientists are gradually finding out why dirty air Is so harmful to ill persons with Dr. P. J. Lawther of Air Pollution Research Centre at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
1965x10
The Long Slide
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When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water and begin to 'aquaplane.' Scientists are studying this fact which creates a real hazard to aircraft .. show full overview
1965x11
Men and Sharks
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Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets with the eminent physiologist Sir Henry Dale as he celebrates his 90th birthday and looks back on his career in medical research.
1965x12
The Sudden Light
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Horizon looks into the study of a total eclipse, and reports on a new machine and its potential to teach deaf children to speak.
1965x13
Dr. Joseph Needham
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This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhaps the greatest living authority on China.
1965x14
Science Fiction: Science Fact?
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Is all science fiction mercly fantasy-or can it give valuable clues to the future? Also: Desmond Morris interviews naturalist George Schaller about his work with gorillas studying their behavior in the wild, and work studying tigers in the wild.
1965x15
Certain of Uncertainty
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The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and George Thompson meet and discuss topic with John Charap at the annual science conference in Lindau, Germany.
1965x16
Time Stood Still
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Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has won international recognition for his achievements in ultra-high-speed photography, talks about his work .. show full overview
1965x17
Fuel for the Future
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Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific books which he was about to sell.
1965x18
Let Newton Be
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On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of his most ardent disciples, Prof. Julius Summer-Miller, comes from California to illustrate the excitement of seeing Newton's principles in action.
1965x19
Special Senses
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Horizon investigates Dr. Gregory's viaduct experiment which involved looking at an object at night through the arches of a viaduct in order to test the effects of night on the accuracy of human vision.
1965x20
An Affair of the Heart
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Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.
1965x21
10,000 Tombs
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Horizon probes into the Etruscan tombs in Italy.
1965x22
Toil, Sweat & Tears
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Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert Szent-Gyorgi.
1965x23
The Big Dishes and the Living Stream
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Horizon looks into radio telescopes.
1965x24
Boys on Bubbles
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Professor Charles Vernon Boys gives a Christmas lecture on bubbles. Also: Problems and Puzzles - T. H. O'Beirne , a mathematician, challenges you to solve some of the puzzles he has invented.

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