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