Air date: 1968-09-26

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Thomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible technology shaping our world.

Air date: 1968-10-03

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Air date: 1968-10-10

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A review of history of man's oldest materials: wood, stone, iron, bronze and glass.

Air date: 1968-11-07

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Defying force of gravity, man has strewn his structures across earth. This program looks at some of them.

Air date: 1968-11-14

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Much of this program deals with basic communications problem of getting a signal through noise.

Air date: 1968-11-21

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The 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.

Air date: 1968-11-28

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One test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new in 1876.

Air date: 1968-12-05

Runtime: min

The Greek inventor, Alexander Hero, first defined five basic devices which make all machines possible: lever, wedge, wheel, pulley and screw.

Air date: 1968-12-12

Runtime: min

This program shows how man changes his environment by shaping land he lives on, reclaiming land from sea, making new lakes and rivers.

Air date: 1968-12-19

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This film looks, sometimes whimsically, at examples of old and modern flying machines.

Air date: 1968-12-26

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Man's first "portable power" device was part of his own body, energy from contraction of long molecules in presence of sugar: muscle power.

Air date: 1969-01-02

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Are problems of urban transportation insurmountable? The traffic jams which are a regular feature of city life make it appear so.

Air date: 1969-01-09

Runtime: min

A system, according to Oxford dictionary, is a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement, according to some scheme or plan.

Air date: 1969-03-18

Runtime: min

A study of life and work of Jean Jacques Audubon, great painter-naturalist who captured beauty of American wildlife on canvas.