[Voice over - delivered in a staccato semi-monotone by an omiscient narrator.]
NARRATOR: Two men, two colleges, two continents, autumn, 1760.
[split-screen]
NARRATOR: On the left: tall, thin-skinned, shy, Mr. Thomas Jefferson, student at William and Mary College, taking his first bite of the academic apple, in his own words eager to continue his study of the classics, learn something of mathematics, gain a more universal acquaintance.
On the right: Mr. James Watt, employee, in his workshop at the University of Glasgow. Trained as an instrument maker, member of the Guild of Hammermen, a mechanic who can make anything, but a man ignorant of steam and steam engines, an ignorance soon to be remedied.
Two men with little to show as yet in the way of accomplishment. Two men unknowingly waiting for the cue to make their stage entrance in two very different revolutions. And for now, two men unaware that the cue will come from that same small influence waiting for them both in the wings behind the proscenium of -- the Diary Zone.
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