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A small prairie town has few secrets but in Balgonie, Saskatchewan, William (Bill) Wallace Gibson had one. Each night, when most folks were home asleep, Bill was busy in his workshop. Bill had a dream. He was building a flying machine. This short puppet animation tells his story.
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Will we be able to grow all of our fuel in the future? Uncovers a biofuel jet truck, a record-breaking flying machine, and a unique car made almost entirely of organic matter. Also, explores new ways of harvesting energy from biomass.
Fly into this high-tech career and learn about satellites, airplanes, and maybe even flying cars of the future. Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. Part of the "I Can Be Anything I Want to Be A to Z" series.
Can the wind provide us with all of our power? Along with cutting-edge wind farms and new turbine designs, this production meets renegade inventor Doug Selsam as he builds the world's first flying turbine, a device that may just change our world.
I think what your eyesight does is confirm other senses, says James Robertshaw, a world champion kite flyer and for two years personal assistant to Rory Heap. Heap has been blind from birth, but with Robertshaw's assistance pursues his ambition for kite flying--particularly of complicated figure eight patterns. Using all of his senses except for sight, Heap learns how to fly a kite with the same dexterity that Robertshaw uses to guide him through busy city streets.
In each episode, viewers are given clues about a hidden animal inside a magic box. Can viewers use all the clues to correctly name this fish that likes to propel itself out of water at speeds of more than 35 miles an hour? Part of the "Zoobabu" series.
Students explore the various types of simple machines and their impact on work and power. Students also learn how to calculate work and power. Other topics covered include joule, watt, efficiency, mechanical advantage, screw, inclined plane, lever, fulcrum, wedge, pulley, wheel, and axle.
Part of a series that features a wide variety of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Begins with a simple definition of the term and concludes with a critical thinking question. For this particular video, students will focus on the term simple machine. Part of the Science Video Vocab Series.
Stephen Fry, writer and actor, gathers a team of craftsmen to help him build a copy of Gutenberg's printing press and sets himself the task of learning how to make the paper and type to print as Gutenberg once did. These practical trials and tests demonstrate the brilliance of Gutenberg's invention and bring the man and his machine to life. Also investigates why printing mattered so much to Gutenberg and his contemporaries, exploring the political and religious turmoil that shaped Gutenberg's world.
NASA’s "Juno" spacecraft traveled 1.7 billion miles to reach its destination: the planet Jupiter. Before "Juno’s" journey, NASA engineers had to develop a spacecraft capable of surviving the trip. They researched and created "Juno," a solar-powered spacecraft. Part of the “Crazy Engineering” series.
An orphanage for injured animals in northeastern Australia raises 500 baby spectacled flying foxes each year. The youngsters have lost their mothers to a disease caused by ticks. The adult flying foxes suffer paralysis when bitten by ticks, and workers from the animal orphanage care for the babies hoping to release them back into the wild. Segment of video from Wild Chronicles Series.
What is the science behind a teeter-totter or slide? Students learn about simple machines as they explore the playground. Part of the “Everyday Science for Preschoolers” series.
Dr. Chris is called to help at the local bat hospital. Can Dr. Chris save a bat named Millie who is covered in goo? He must also help a currawong with a wooden skewer through its wing. At SASH, Dr. Lisa diagnoses a listless puppy named Jelly. Part of the "Dr. Chris Pet Vet" series.
Stacey Combes, a biomechanist at Harvard University, and her team are using high speed cameras to help them study how dragonflies pull off complicated aerial feats that include hunting and mating in mid-air. They can fly straight up, straight down, hover like helicopters and disappear in a blur. Combes is also exploring the use of dragonflies for mosquito control.
With support from the National Science Foundation, chemist Kent Kirshenbaum and his team at New York University are engineering molecules to mimic the shapes, structures, and functions of natural proteins. The ultimate goal of this biomimetic chemistry research is to develop a reliable way to build synthetic proteins that can be put to work at the industrial scale. Part of the "Science Nation" series.
Everyday people do work, and most of the time they use tools to help them. First, students gain an understanding of work. Next they explore the relationship between work and energy. Common examples of tools used to make work easier are highlighted. Concepts and terminology discussed include: work, energy, machine, simple machine, wedge, wheel and axle, and lever.
A string of gumballs all the same color mysteriously fall out of a gumball machine. Yana and Egbert set out to explore this phenomena. This episode explores the relationship between samples, populations, random sampling, and selective sampling. Part of the "Yana & Egbert" series.
The scientists explore the absorbency of rice. They will also create a pendulum wave machine and make the perfect paper plane. Part of the House of Science Series.
In this behind-the-scenes glimpse into the skeletal collections at The Field Museum, host Emily Graslie examines various elephant skeletons. Bill Stanley, Director of the Gantz Family Collections Center, describes the differences in skull structure between the species. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
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