The Good The Bad & The Ugly 1966 - Mark Williams - Jim Al-Khalili TV - James Burke TV - Leonardo da Vinci - Matt le Tissier -
I know nothing at all about that case of coins. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly [Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo] 1966 starring Clint Eastwood & Lee van Cleef & Eli Wallach & Aldo Giuffre & Al Mulock & Antonio Casas & John Bartha & Claudio Scarchillio & Sandro Scarchilli & Antonio Molion Rojo, director Sergio Leone, Stevens to Angel Eyes
Boulton was always quick to spot an opportunity. In the 1790s rapid inflation created a national demand for coinage, so he set up another production line using steam power to revolutionise coin making – a trade still carried on in the city [Birmingham] today. Mark Williams, Industrial Revolutions s1e6: Coining It, Discovery 2002
Coin-making is one of the many examples of how the practical needs of the booming economy began to turn the magical practice of alchemy into modern chemistry. Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Science & Islam: The Empire of Reason, BBC 2009
It still took Americans fifty years to give up using their English shillings. James Burke, Connections s2e20: Flexible Response, BBC 1994
Invisible coins
Will lead to
The triumph of many
Who spend them. Leonardo da Vinci
Who will win the League? It’s a toss of a coin between three of them. Matt le Tissier