Light Fantastic is the title of a television documentary series that
explores the phenomenon of light and aired in December 2004 on BBC Four.
The series comprised four programmes respectively titled: "Let There be
Light"; "The Light of Reason"; "The Stuff of Light"; and "Light, The
Universe and Everything." The material was presented by Cambridge
academic Simon Schaffer.
The Third episode charts the discovery
of the true nature of light and the subsequent development of modern
technology such as electricity and mobile phones.
The pioneers
are credited as James Clerk Maxwell; Joseph Swan William Armstrong;
Thomas Edison; Wilhelm Röntgen; J.J Thompson; and Max Planck.
In
1847, as a sixteen year-old, Maxwell was taken to see one of the minor
scientic wonders of the Victorian world: A prism made from a special
Icelandic crystal.
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