Timeblazers: Ancient Geniuses
Timeblazers Sam and Jen meet some geniuses of the past, including Nicholas Copernicus, the first to map out the Solar System; William Shakespeare and his magnificent Globe Theatre; Benjamin Franklin, a great inventor, printer, and philosopher; Thomas Edison, who invented the first practical incandescent light bulb; Eratosthenes, who used a stick to figure out the size of the earth and that the planet was round; Plato, a great philosopher and thinker; Jean-Francois Champollion, who unlocked the mystery of the Rosetta Stone; Magellan, who was the first to sail around the world; and the "Renaissance Man," Leonardo da Vinci.
(Source: DCMP)
Metadata
- Subject:
- Inventions - Technology
- Keywords:
- copernicus, edison, electricity, franklin, globe theatre, leonardo da vinci, magellan, magnetism, physics, plato, rosetta stone, shakespeare, solar system
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Timeblazers: Ancient Geniuses
- Type:
- Video
- Format:
- Streaming
- Accommodations:
- English Audio Descriptions - Visual, English Captions - Auditory
- Languages:
- English
- License:
- DCMP Membership
- Author:
- Chip Taylor Communications
- Length:
- 25 minutes