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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
digital, .flv file, sound 1 online resource (6 video file, approximately 360 min.) :
Language
English
Description
Join best-selling author Steven Johnson to discover extraordinary stories behind six remarkable ideas that made modern life possible, the unsung heroes who brought them about and the unexpected and bizarre consequences each of these innovations triggered.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
digital, .flv file, sound 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) :
Language
English
Description
Only in the last 200 years have humans learned how to make things cold. Johnson explains how ice entrepreneur Frederic Tudor made ice delivery the second biggest export business in the U.S. and visits the place where Clarence Birdseye, the father of the frozen food industry, experienced his eureka moment. He also travels to Dubai to see how mastery of cold has led to penguins in the desert. From IVF to food, politics and Hollywood to human migration,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
digital, .flv file, sound 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) :
Language
English
Description
Johnson considers how the invention of the mirror gave rise to the Renaissance, how glass lenses allow us to reveal worlds within worlds and how, deep beneath the ocean, glass is essential to communication. He learns about the daring exploits of glassmakers who were forced to work under threat of the death penalty, a physics teacher who liked to fire molten glass from a crossbow and a scientist whose tinkering with a glass lens allowed 600 million...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
digital, .flv file, sound 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) :
Language
English
Description
Imagine a world without the power to capture or transmit sound. Journey with Johnson to the Arcy sur Cure caves in northern France, where he finds the first traces of the desire to record sound — 10,000 years ago. He also learns about the difference that radio made in the civil rights movement and discovers that telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell thought that the best use for his invention was long-distance jam sessions. During an ultrasound...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
digital, .flv file, sound 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) :
Language
English
Description
Johnson relates the story of people who take us out of the dark and into the light. Hear about Edison’s light bulb, which he didn’t actually invent, and learn how an 18th-century ship’s skipper discovered a source of illumination by putting a kid inside a whale’s head. See how a French scientist accidentally discovered how to create neon light, leading to a revolution in advertising. Dispelling the myth of the individual “eureka” moment,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
digital, .flv file, sound 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) :
Language
English
Description
Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. Johnson plunges into a sewer to understand what made a maverick engineer decide to lift the city of Chicago with screw jacks in order to build America’s first sewer system. He talks about John Leal, who deliberately “poisoned” the water supply of 200,000...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
digital, .flv file, sound 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) :
Language
English
Description
Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. Johnson plunges into a sewer to understand what made a maverick engineer decide to lift the city of Chicago with screw jacks in order to build America’s first sewer system. He talks about John Leal, who deliberately “poisoned” the water supply of 200,000...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join best-selling author Steven Johnson to hear extraordinary stories behind remarkable ideas that made modern life possible, the unsung heroes who brought them about, and the unexpected and bizarre consequences each of these innovations triggered.
Publisher
The Best Part, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A humorous and heartwarming story of a group of senior citizens who take their first steps into cyber-space under the tutelage of teenage mentors. The spirited group of men and women are enriched by digitally re-connecting with their families and each other. Finding their footing rather quickly, the group moves on to compete for the most YouTube views while swiftly building their online inventory of friends.
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