One test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new in 1876. Air Date : 28th-Nov-1968

Thomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible technology shaping our world. Air Date : 26th-Sep-1968  Read More

Air Date : 3rd-Oct-1968  Read More

A review of history of man's oldest materials: wood, stone, iron, bronze and glass. Air Date : 10th-Oct-1968  Read More

Defying force of gravity, man has strewn his structures across earth. This program looks at some of them. Air Date : 7th-Nov-1968  Read More

Much of this program deals with basic communications problem of getting a signal through noise. Air Date : 14th-Nov-1968  Read More

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. Air Date : 21st-Nov-1968  Read More

One test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new in 1876. Air Date : 28th-Nov-1968  Read More

The Greek inventor, Alexander Hero, first defined five basic devices which make all machines possible: lever, wedge, wheel, pulley and screw. Air Date : 5th-Dec-1968  Read More

This program shows how man changes his environment by shaping land he lives on, reclaiming land from sea, making new lakes and rivers. Air Date : 12th-Dec-1968  Read More

This film looks, sometimes whimsically, at examples of old and modern flying machines. Air Date : 19th-Dec-1968  Read More

Man's first "portable power" device was part of his own body, energy from contraction of long molecules in presence of sugar: muscle power. Air Date : 26th-Dec-1968  Read More

Are problems of urban transportation insurmountable? The traffic jams which are a regular feature of city life make it appear so. Air Date : 2nd-Jan-1969  Read More

A system, according to Oxford dictionary, is a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement, according to some scheme or plan. Air Date : 9th-Jan-1969  Read More

A study of life and work of Jean Jacques Audubon, great painter-naturalist who captured beauty of American wildlife on canvas. Air Date : 18th-Mar-1969  Read More