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1) Structures
Publisher
Classroom Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Language
English
Description
This video presents a range of structures, both from nature and man made which help clarify, in simple language, the principles underlying the properties of structures. Included are discussions of tension, compression, arches, cantilevering, pre and post-stressing beams, shear, torsion and a section on light structures.
2) Understanding the world's greatest structures: science and innovation from antiquity to modernity
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This video is designed to familiarize one with the techniques, procedures and equipment necessary to construct solid walls of rammed earth. Soil selection, testing, foundations, basic formbuilding and earth ramming are explained in a simple, easy-to-follow format by a world respected earthbuilding expert.
Series
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"From the "Bungee Zone" in British Columbia to New York Harbor's Verranzano Narrows Bridge (one of the longest suspension bridges in the world), our daredevil host, Bill Nye, goes to any length to prove the structural principles of tension and compression"--Container.
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This documentary explores Egypt's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments through the prism of its pharaohs' indomitable personalities. As Egypt's pharaohs alternately conquered and ceded vast expanses of land, they pushed their royal architects to stretch the boundaries of imagination and human potential, in effect inventing the science of structural engineering. Follow the empire's development from the First Dynasty of 3000 BC through the last...
Series
Publisher
Discovery Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Join structural engineers and leading architects as they reveal their design plans for a massive bridge that would join North America and Asia, following the same intercontinental route as the ancient Bering Strait land bridge.
8) Colosseum
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
How did the Romans produce some of the most impressive gladiatorial games ever seen in Europe? How did the Colosseum's mysterious roof really work? And how does the mighty Colosseum compare to the popular sports venues of the 21st century? Structural engineer Steve Burrows and his team of laser-scanning experts head to Rome on a quest to answer these questions and uncover some of the oldest mysteries of the ancient stadium.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television program that explores the Inca civilization from the perspective of their construction techniques. Archaeological teams use traditional building techniques to test their hypotheses, including the building of a 150-foot suspension bridge using nothing but grass.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlock mysteries and uncover lost history with the experts as they use yesteryear's technology to recreate five ancient engineering marvels and to discover what daily life was really like in these communities. Travel around the globe from China to Egypt and take a fresh, "hands-on" look at mankind's greatest cultures and civilizations.
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Part of a two-part series that explores the history and building of several major landmarks in America, including the architects, engineers, and workers who built them. This program discusses the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, Ford's River Rouge industrial plant in Detroit, the Hoover Dam, and the Interstate Highway System.
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Part of a two-part series that explores the history and building of several major landmarks in America, including the architects, engineers, and workers who built them. This program discusses the Kennedy Space Center's vehicle assembly building, the Superdome in New Orleans, Orlando's Epcot Center, the Los Angeles Concert Hall, and the renovated strip of Las Vegas.
