1 Season
3 Episode
The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements - Season 1 Episode 1 Out of Thin Air (1754-1806)
One of science’s great odd couples — British minister Joseph Priestley and French tax administrator Antoine Lavoisier — together discover a fantastic new gas called oxygen, overturning the reigning theory of chemistry and triggering a worldwide search for new elements. Soon caught up in the hunt is science’s first great showman, a precocious British chemist named Humphry Davy, who dazzles London audiences with his lectures, introduces them to laughing gas and turns the battery into a powerful tool in the search for new elements.
- Year: 2015
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
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- Director: Stephen Lyons
- Cast: Michael Emerson
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