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Series
Design solutions volume 4
Publisher
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Hydrovision specializes in the design and manufacture of remotely operated vehicles, or ROV, for use underwater. The company has decided that it is time to come up with a new and improved version of their long-standing, highly successful model. This program look specifically at how electronics and software engineers at Hydrovision use block diagrams to organize the onboard component systems of the ROV. The designers also get a chance to test and...
Publisher
A & E Television Network
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Examines errors of engineering that have caused disasters, including the MBM Grand Hotel fire (Las Vegas, Nov 1980), L'Ambiance Plaza collapse, R16 and N1 Soviet space failures, Point Pleasant "Silver" Bridge collapse (Ohio to West Virginia, 1967), Lacey B. Merle Bridge collapse (Seattle, Nov. 1990), design flaws of the Chevrolet Corvair and Ford Pinto which lead to the Uniform Auto Safety Standards and the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission,...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Egyptian Pyramids: Constructed as tombs for the ancient pharaohs, over 100 pyramids remain in Egypt today, standing as cultural and engineering marvels of staggering proportions. But many facts about these monuments, including the exact methods used to construct them, remain tantalizingly obscure. Modern Marvels travels back in time to investigate their evolution, from the first primitive, flat-roofed tombs called "mastaba" to such magnificent works...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Mount Rushmore: Follows the quest of the sculptor Gutzon Borglum to create Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota Mount Rushmore. Describes how Borglum whipped American patriotism into a frenzy to elicit public support and secure financing for his dream. Shows how, over the course of fifteen years, 350 men poured their sweat into Borglum's vision using drills and explosives to chisel the stone faces of the American presidents Washington,...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Experience street-level life in ancient Greece and China; track the expansion of history's most ambitious cultures like Rome and Byzantium; and marvel at the touchstone achievments - the Parthenon, Tenochtitlan, The Great Wall, Chichen Iltz - that defined the past and awe us to this day.
Publisher
Janson Media [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A documentary that chronicles the history of westward expansion and the construction of the largest stainless steel structure ever built, the Gateway Arch. Featured are newly discovered construction footage, rare photographs of westward expansion and early conceptual drawings by architect Eero Saarinen. Dozens of interviews include World Trade Center Master Plan architect Daniel Libeskind and architecture critic Jayne Merkel, along with the workers...