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Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide.
Language
English
Description
A History of Invention takes young viewers on a journey through time to explore some of the world's most remarkable innovations in the areas of communication, transportation, agriculture and medicine.
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (5 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life of this true Renaissance man, examining his incredible curiosity and understanding of the things around him.
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (5 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
By exploring archival films, photographs and actual drawings and materials, students will learn of Alexander Graham Bell, his early life, improving the telegraph, and inventions after the telephone.
5) Henry Ford
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (5 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
By exploring archival films, photographs and actual drawings and materials, students will learn of Henry Ford and his Model T, but his most valuable innovation was his new manufacturing process and moving assembly line that revolutionized how cars were made, thus transforming the industry and America!
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (5 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Introduces students to this amazing scientist and inventor, who proved that microscopic organisms were the cause of many diseases.
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (5 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
By exploring archival films, photographs and actual drawings and materials, students will learn of the Wright brothers, especially through reenactments. They had to test their ideas about flight before finally building their first powered airplane.
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + Teacher's guides.
Language
English
Description
George Washington Carver gives students a close-up look at this fascinating teacher, scientist and inventor whose agricultural innovations improved the health, lives and fortunes of so many people.
9) James Watt
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (5 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
James Watt tells the story of an industrious Scotsman who set out to improve the efficiency of an existing piece of machinery and, in the process, sparked the Industrial Revolution!
10) Eli Whitney
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (5 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
By exploring archival films, photographs and actual drawings and materials, students will learn of Eli Whitney and how invention of the cotton gin had an enormous economic impact on young America and slavery.
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