The Nature of Things: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Nature of Things Season 8.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
Thomas Edison
Sep 26, 1968
Thomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible technology shaping our world.
Materials
Oct 10, 1968
A review of history of man's oldest materials: wood, stone, iron, bronze and glass.
Structure
Nov 7, 1968
Defying force of gravity, man has strewn his structures across earth. This program looks at some of them.
Communications
Nov 14, 1968
Much of this program deals with basic communications problem of getting a signal through noise.
Canals And Tunnels
Nov 21, 1968
The great engineers of past - men like DE Lesseps of Suez fame and Panama infamy and Bradley - whose canals were arteries of industrial revolution, sacrificed health and fortune, a
Central Power
Nov 28, 1968
One test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new in 1876.
Man And Machines
Dec 5, 1968
The Greek inventor, Alexander Hero, first defined five basic devices which make all machines possible: lever, wedge, wheel, pulley and screw.
Land And Water
Dec 12, 1968
This program shows how man changes his environment by shaping land he lives on, reclaiming land from sea, making new lakes and rivers.
Man Aloft
Dec 19, 1968
This film looks, sometimes whimsically, at examples of old and modern flying machines.
Portable Power
Dec 26, 1968
Man's first "portable power" device was part of his own body, energy from contraction of long molecules in presence of sugar: muscle power.
Machines And Man: Transportation
Jan 2, 1969
Are problems of urban transportation insurmountable? The traffic jams which are a regular feature of city life make it appear so.
Machine And Man: Systems Engineering
Jan 9, 1969
A system, according to Oxford dictionary, is a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement, according to some scheme or plan.
Audubon
Mar 18, 1969
A study of life and work of Jean Jacques Audubon, great painter-naturalist who captured beauty of American wildlife on canvas.