Episode 1
Thomas Edison
1968-09-26
Thomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible technology shaping our world.
TV season
1968-09-26
Episode 1
1968-09-26
Thomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible technology shaping our world.
Episode 2
1968-10-03
Episode 3
1968-10-10
A review of history of man's oldest materials: wood, stone, iron, bronze and glass.
Episode 4
1968-11-07
Defying force of gravity, man has strewn his structures across earth. This program looks at some of them.
Episode 5
1968-11-14
Much of this program deals with basic communications problem of getting a signal through noise.
Episode 6
1968-11-21
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.
Episode 7
1968-11-28
One test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new in 1876.
Episode 8
1968-12-05
The Greek inventor, Alexander Hero, first defined five basic devices which make all machines possible: lever, wedge, wheel, pulley and screw.
Episode 9
1968-12-12
This program shows how man changes his environment by shaping land he lives on, reclaiming land from sea, making new lakes and rivers.
Episode 10
1968-12-19
This film looks, sometimes whimsically, at examples of old and modern flying machines.
Episode 11
1968-12-26
Man's first "portable power" device was part of his own body, energy from contraction of long molecules in presence of sugar: muscle power.
Episode 12
1969-01-02
Are problems of urban transportation insurmountable? The traffic jams which are a regular feature of city life make it appear so.
Episode 13
1969-01-09
A system, according to Oxford dictionary, is a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement, according to some scheme or plan.
Episode 14
1969-03-18
A study of life and work of Jean Jacques Audubon, great painter-naturalist who captured beauty of American wildlife on canvas.