The Science Alliance — Season 1, Episode 6: Heat
15 min • 1 season, 10 episodes
Episode synopsis
Bryant tells the story of Benjamin Thompson, who first discovered heat as energy. Members of The Science Alliance help demonstrate that heat can make matter expand, and that heat travels by conduction, convection, and radiation.
About The Science Alliance
The Science Alliance was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1981-82. The hosts were Rex Hagon and Judy Haladay. The typical episode would feature the hosts demonstrating various aspect of the subject of the episode. In addition, a largely unseen narrator named Bryant would interrupt at pertinent points with a vignette called "Bryant's Giants of Science" which would tell the story of a figure in the history of science and their contribution to scientific knowledge.