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Light Fantastic is the title of a television documentary series that explores the phenomenon of light. All credits go to the great BBC Four channel. Narrated by Cambridge academic Simon Schaffer. Documentary created by BBC in 2004. > The third episode charts the discovery of the true nature of light and the subsequent development of modern technology such as electricity and mobile phones. The pioneers are credited as James Clerk Maxwell; Joseph Swan William Armstrong; Thomas Edison; Wilhelm Röntgen; J. J. Thomson; and Max Planck. In 1847, as a sixteen year-old, Maxwell was taken to see one of the minor scientic wonders of the Victorian world: A prism made from a special Icelandic crystal. Info source : Wikipedia