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21) Train crazy kids
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"This collection of 4 train shows will fascinate and enthrall your little one while introducing them to this classic mode of transportation! Learn all about trains while learning your ABCs in The alphabet train. See the basics of how trains work in Awesome trains. Considering a career on the railroad? Then check out the various types of jobs from brakemen to yardmasters in I wanna be a train engineer. Finally, have some fun with model trains in I...
Publisher
New Science Ideas
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In this program and series of interviews, the engineer, architect and philosopher Buckminster Fuller points out how mankind is moving from the tangible world which can be evidenced by sight, sound, smell and touch, into the invisible world of energy, ions, electrical forces, etc. He states that "man must learn to think for himself, rather than follow blindly what he has been taught."
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,...
Series
Publisher
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The video explores several new developments in manufacturing of alternative energy systems and how they will impact the energy generation and utilization markets of the future, while reducing the dependence on fossil fuels. Three companies that are taking advantage of alternative energy technologies are presented: STM Power, developer of advanced stirling engine technology to convert waste heat and gas into electricity; United Solar Ovonic, mass-manufacturers...
Series
Science screen report volume 30
Publisher
Cambridge Educational
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This program looks at a clean and renewable energy source, hot dry rocks known as advanced geothermal systems. It shows how masses of heated granite three miles underground can be accessed with advanced drilling and computer imaging techniques, and how water forced through fissures in the granite can generate steam to produce electricity.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark, a once great engineer who dreams of creating a revolutionary product while trying to manage his initially unsupportive wife Donna, and Cameron Howe, a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan's...
Publisher
Ruth Carranza Productions
Pub. Date
[2004, 1993]
Language
English
Description
Follows the manufacturing process by which IC wafers are made into chips used in microcomputers and multichip units of high-end computers. Illustrates back-end manufacturing from testing through packaging, PC board design and assembly, systems assembly, computer structure, and multichip technology.
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as things every educated person should know. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more--providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. The Joy of Science,...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container.
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