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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...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This entertaining and informative series reveals the extraordinary feats of engineering hidden inside the world's most spectacular man-made constructions. From the worlds biggest plane and largest free-spanning dome, to the tallest building and the largest spaceship, each superstructure is taken apart using state-of-the-art CGI--and examined by world-class specialists--to reveal the startling innovations that have turned it from dream into reality."...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Carved from a hundred million pounds of stone, soaring effortlessly atop a spiderweb of masonry, Gothic cathedrals are marvels of human achievement and artistry. But how did medieval builders reach such spectacular heights? Consuming the labor of entire towns, sometimes taking a hundred years to build, these architectural marvels were crafted from just hand tools and stone. Many now teeter on the brink of catastrophic collapse.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In recent years, many people are redefining their American Dream to focus on flexibility, financial freedom, and quality of life over quantity of space. These self-proclaimed "Tiny Housers" live in homes smaller than the average parking space, often built on wheels to bypass building codes and zoning laws. Tiny takes viewers inside six of these homes stripped to their essentials, exploring the owners' stories and the design innovations that make them...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The six-part series follows some of the world's most extraordinary railway journeys from above and on the ground, taking the audience on an adventure of a lifetime. We fly above spectacular scenery and explore exceptional engineering; meeting the people who maintain and run these incredible railroads as well as those who live alongside them.
49) Framing walls
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Larry Haun takes you step-by-step through the entire process of building the walls in a basic house, showing you practical ways to organize tasks, streamline procedures, and handle tools and materials efficiently.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The sophomore season of the hit tech-centered drama hits the ground running. It's March 1985. More than a year has passed since Joe MacMillan set fire to a truck full of Cardiff Giant PCs, the last in a long string of destructive acts that burned the people that made the machine possible. The Giant is about to go the way of the dinosaur, like any number of personal computers to enter the market in the wake of IBM. The lesson is harsh but clear.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
On June 21, 2004 Spaceship One developed by Burt Rutan and his company, Scaled Composites, became the world's first commercial manned space vehicle. This is the sequel to the story of the development of Spaceship One. Describes Burt Rutan's quest to capture the elusive X Prize, a $10 million award for the first privately funded, non-governmental group to build a spacecraft capable of carrying three 6'2", 198-pound adults to an altitude of 62 miles...
52) Tunnels
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"How do tunnels stay dry under water? Who dug the first tunnels? Go underground with award-winning author-illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay ... and get an amazing look at tunnels through spectacular film footage, little-known facts and dramatic recreations. From ancient Rome to the remarkable Channel Tunnel that connects France and England, Tunnels introduces courageous engineers, relives deadly disasters, and reveals little-known...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
DVD How-to Video on green and sustainable straw bale house design, adobe, cob, and other alternative and green building materials; the design of structures to create a sense of place, detailed construction techniques, passive heating and cooling, solar energy, rainwater cisterns, earth and mud plaster, cob, rubble trench foundations, thermal mass walls, passive heating and cooling, off-the-grid photovoltaic electrical generation, movies, inspiration,...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A feature documentary about Boston's first residential green building, and the skeptical workers who are asked to build it. From wheatboard cabinetry to recycled steel, bamboo flooring to dual-flush toilets, the Macallen Building is something different, a leader in the emerging field of environmentally friendly design. But Boston's steel-toed union workers aren't sure they like it. And when things on the building start to go wrong, the young developer...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Can the designers of the Druk White Lotus School in remote Ladakh, India, help preserve the region's cultural identity for future generations? Could architect Thom Mayne's new San Francisco Federal Building be the prototype for tomorrow's workplace? Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, transformed one of the world's most chaotic cities into a model of sustainable and civic-minded urban planning. Third-generation develop Jonathan...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Bob is back in an-all new construction adventure to teach the art of building skyscrapers. Along with Tumbler, Dizzy, Lofty and Flex, Bob is always ready to tackle even the tallest projects. No problem is too high to solve when you have positive-thinking and teamwork.
Pub. Date
©2017.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
For over 1,000 years, chariots thundered across China's battlefields, dominating warfare longer than anywhere else on Earth. Now, a series of amazing archaeological findings enable a team of experts to reconstruct and test China's first super-weapon.
60) The wind rises
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. The film chronicles much of his...
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