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Speed
Title
Speed [electronic resource (video)] / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], c2013
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (50 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 14, 2014.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
In the second program, the team reveals the fascinating chain of events that made the everyday marvel of quick and safe global travel possible. Coming from the Rolls Royce aero-engine factory Michael Mosley and team tell the amazing story of three more era-defining inventions: the steam locomotive, the internal combustion engine, and the jet engine.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2013.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
The Genius of Invention: Ideas That Changed the World
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
6 & up.
Contents
Speed Topics (2:14)
Rolls Royce Jet Engine Room (1:39)
Transportation Engineering and Invention (2:06)
New Type of Steam Engine (2:22)
High Pressured Steam Engine (3:09)
Fire Tube and Cylindrical Boiler (3:29)
Locomotive Steam Engine (3:29)
Invention, Social Change and Innovation (3:00)
Internal Combustion Engine (4:17)
World's First Car (2:19)
Model T (2:28)
World War I Inventions (2:46)
Jet Engine (4:03)
How a Jet Engine Works (2:14)
High Pressured Turbine Blade (2:45)
Trent Engine Assembly (3:41)
Summary and Preview (1:46)
Credits: Speed: Genius of Inventions-Ideas That Changed the World (0:38)
Videorecording number
57493s Infobase
57495 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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