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Time and Distance
Title
Time and Distance [electronic resource (video)] / Open University.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c2011.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (59 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 31, 2013.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
Big Ben was an engineering marvel when it was built, accurate to within one second per hour. By the 19th century, advances in technology had established a reliable unit of distance as well, basing the length of the meter on a portion of the Earth's circumference rather than on the arm of whichever monarch was in power. In this program, Marcus du Sautoy reviews the history and current status of the meter and the second and explains how their standardization was a boon to both science and the economy. Beginning with cave paintings and ending with the atomic clock, du Sautoy also reveals the role that Henry Ford played in synchronizing the counting of time.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Open University, 2011.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Precision: The Measure of All Things
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
7 & up.
Contents
Obsessed With Measurement (2:20)
Time and Distance (1:21)
Lascaux Caves (1:52)
Giant Calendar (2:32)
Sundial (1:41)
Water Clock (1:20)
Simple Arithmetic (1:32)
Cubit Rod (1:06)
Great Pyramid of Cheops (1:51)
Standardization (2:25)
From Chaos to Constants (2:38)
Academy of Sciences, Paris (2:36)
A Seven Year Journey (3:02)
Official Standard of Measurement (3:05)
Improving on the Sundial (3:11)
Clocks Control Lives (2:09)
Creating Universal Time (2:53)
Global Standardization (1:45)
Measurement Standards (3:16)
Quantum Age (2:23)
Changing the Meter's Destiny (2:33)
Science into Practice (2:48)
Redefining the Second (2:14)
Oscillations Define Time (2:13)
Redefining Length by the Second (1:17)
Continuing Quest (2:24)
Credits: Time and Distance: Precision - The Measure of All Things (0:42)
Videorecording number
53467s Infobase
53470 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Open University.
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