Season 9

1. Thomas Edison

1968-09-26

Thomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible technology shaping our world.

2. Human Engineering

1968-10-03

3. Materials

1968-10-10

A review of history of man's oldest materials: wood, stone, iron, bronze and glass.

4. Structure

1968-11-07

Defying force of gravity, man has strewn his structures across earth. This program looks at some of them.

5. Communications

1968-11-14

Much of this program deals with basic communications problem of getting a signal through noise.

6. Canals And Tunnels

1968-11-21

The great engineers of past - men like DE Lesseps of Suez fame and Panama infamy and Bradley - whose canals were arteries of industrial revolution, sacrificed health and fortune, and sometimes lives.

7. Central Power

1968-11-28

One test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new in 1876.

8. Man And Machines

1968-12-05

The Greek inventor, Alexander Hero, first defined five basic devices which make all machines possible: lever, wedge, wheel, pulley and screw.

9. Land And Water

1968-12-12

This program shows how man changes his environment by shaping land he lives on, reclaiming land from sea, making new lakes and rivers.

10. Man Aloft

1968-12-19

This film looks, sometimes whimsically, at examples of old and modern flying machines.

11. Portable Power

1968-12-26

Man's first "portable power" device was part of his own body, energy from contraction of long molecules in presence of sugar: muscle power.

12. Machines And Man: Transportation

1969-01-02

Are problems of urban transportation insurmountable? The traffic jams which are a regular feature of city life make it appear so.

13. Machine And Man: Systems Engineering

1969-01-09

A system, according to Oxford dictionary, is a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement, according to some scheme or plan.

14. Audubon

1969-03-18

A study of life and work of Jean Jacques Audubon, great painter-naturalist who captured beauty of American wildlife on canvas.