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September 26, 1968

Season 9

01. Thomas Edison

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

September 26, 1968

02. Human Engineering

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October 3, 1968

03. Materials

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

October 10, 1968

04. Structure

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

November 7, 1968

05. Communications

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

November 14, 1968

06. Canals And Tunnels

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.

November 21, 1968

07. Central Power

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

November 28, 1968

08. Man And Machines

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

December 5, 1968

09. Land And Water

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

December 12, 1968

10. Man Aloft

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

December 19, 1968

11. Portable Power

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

December 26, 1968

12. Machines And Man: Transportation

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

January 2, 1969

13. Machine And Man: Systems Engineering

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

January 9, 1969

14. Audubon

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

March 18, 1969