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Modern Marvels: American Steel - Built
Modern Marvels
A & E Home Video, 2000
" Its roots go back to the Ancient Egyptians, whose iron weapons helped maintain an empire that lasted three millennia. But in the 1850s, Englishmen Henry Bessemer invented a process that turned iron into steel, and the world was changed forever. MODERN MARVELS. TMshows how this invention laid the groundwork for the industrial revolution, ...
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Modern Marvels: Tennessee Valley Authority
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1997
A Delight - Learn a great deal about the New Deal
My grandfather came from a section of the Army Corps of Engineers' civilian establishment that became a part of TVA in its earliest days and my uncle too became an engineer with TVA.
While there were a few historical flaws (more matters of viewpoint, really), they ...
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Modern Marvels: Cathedrals
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1998
Explains and Shows Impressive Cathedrals!
"Gothic Cathedrals" provides a brief overview of the rationale behind cathedral design and construction, and then focuses on D.C.'s National Cathedral.
Strength (eg. flying buttresses), homage to God, inspiration, and drawing one's eyes upward (eg. the vaults and ...
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Modern Marvels: Great Wall of China
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1998
Rising up from the land like a sleeping dragon, its vastness seems beyond the realm of human possibility... Explore the story of one of the wonders of the Ancient world. The Great Wall of China is the one of the most massive building achievements in history. Winding 6,000 kilometers through undulating mountains, it is the only man-made ...
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Modern Marvels: Ocean Liners
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1998
Since the dawn of time, people have sailed the seas. But the industrial revolution gave birth to an era of great steamships which united the continents and created moveable monuments to luxury and gentility. The Titanic. The Andrea Doria. The Morro Castle. With disaster came new technology and safety precautions as nations vied to build ...
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Modern Marvels: Empire State Building
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1998
explore the Empire State Building
The Empire State building rose to become the world's tallest man-made structure at a time when dreams were in short supply. Planned during the 1920s, construction was almost grounded by the Depression until the "Cathedral of Dreams" came to symbolize the indomitable ...
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Modern Marvels : Grand Coulee Dam
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1998
The completion of the Grand Coulee Dam proved America's industrial might could overcome any obstacle, even mother nature. Construction of this massive dam on Washington's Columbia River began in 1931. But the sheer magnitude of the project brought on unique problems that demanded inventive solutions. When bedrock was exposed, a huge mass of ...
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Modern Marvels: Space Shuttle
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1997
For generations, scientists and science-fiction writers alike dreamed of a reusable "space plane" a durable, maneuverable ship that would make trips to the heavens commonplace. Now, Modern Marvels takes a look at how a team from NASA made that dream real by developing the most extraordinary machine in history--the revolutionary Space Shuttle. ...
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Modern Marvels: Panama Canal
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1997
A wonderful video!
This is a very instructional video with a lot of information regarding the Panama Canal. It is quite interesting to know that the first idea of the Canal was in 1534; that in 1906 was the first time an American president left the country to make an inspection of the ...
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Modern Marvels: Statue of Liberty
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1997
Wake up, America!
After seeing this video, I thought deeply about what the Statue of Liberty means to people who are coming to this country for the first time. If what is presented in the video is true, why was it such a controversial statue? It is not just a symbol of liberty or ...
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Modern Marvels: Firefighting - Extreme
Modern Marvels
A & E Home Video, 2000
Fire has been a fundamental force affecting mankind since before caveman days. Both a blessing and a curse, fire at its worst has wiped out whole cities full of thousands of people. Efforts to control fire have intrigued us since the Roman era, but only within the last few centuries has science and technology changed the way we fight demon ...
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Modern Marvels: Transcontinental Railroads
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1998
Was great in my social studies class!
I enjoyed using this video with my 8th grade students. It was very informative on many aspects of the building of the transcontinental railroad. It showed the dangers faced by these hard-working men as they struggled to link the eastern and western parts of the US. ...
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Modern Marvels: Brooklyn Bridge
Modern Marvels
A&E Home Video, 1998
priceless!!
I saw this on the history channel- twice! I loved it so much
that I thought about it hours after I had seen it. You cannot
imagine the pain and suffering and hard work that went into
building this bridge at a time that there was no technology
like we have today. ...
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