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.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

3

Cast:

Michael Emerson

Quality:

HD

Duration:

60 min

First Air:

2015

Rating:

7.3