Season 9
14 episodes · Sep 26, 1968
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- S9E1
Thomas Edison
Sep 26, 1968Thomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible technology shaping our world.
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Materials
Oct 10, 1968A review of history of man's oldest materials: wood, stone, iron, bronze and glass.
- S9E4
Structure
Nov 7, 1968Defying force of gravity, man has strewn his structures across earth. This program looks at some of them.
- S9E5
Communications
Nov 14, 1968Much of this program deals with basic communications problem of getting a signal through noise.
- S9E6
Canals And Tunnels
Nov 21, 1968The great engineers of past - men like DE Lesseps of Suez fame and Panama infamy and Bradley - whose canals were arteries of industrial revolution, sacrificed health and fortune, and sometimes lives.
- S9E7
Central Power
Nov 28, 1968One test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new in 1876.
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Man And Machines
Dec 5, 1968The Greek inventor, Alexander Hero, first defined five basic devices which make all machines possible: lever, wedge, wheel, pulley and screw.
- S9E9
Land And Water
Dec 12, 1968This program shows how man changes his environment by shaping land he lives on, reclaiming land from sea, making new lakes and rivers.
- S9E10
Man Aloft
Dec 19, 1968This film looks, sometimes whimsically, at examples of old and modern flying machines.
- S9E11
Portable Power
Dec 26, 1968Man's first "portable power" device was part of his own body, energy from contraction of long molecules in presence of sugar: muscle power.
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Machines And Man: Transportation
Jan 2, 1969Are problems of urban transportation insurmountable? The traffic jams which are a regular feature of city life make it appear so.
- S9E13
Machine And Man: Systems Engineering
Jan 9, 1969A system, according to Oxford dictionary, is a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement, according to some scheme or plan.
- S9E14
Audubon
Mar 18, 1969A study of life and work of Jean Jacques Audubon, great painter-naturalist who captured beauty of American wildlife on canvas.