There was an old BBC series called Connections that followed seemingly unrelated chains of inventions to their modern day endpoints. Worth finding on YouTube.

There was an old BBC series called Connections that followed seemingly unrelated chains of inventions to their modern day endpoints. Worth finding on YouTube. Edit: found Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)