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Modern Marvels. Observatories - Stonehenge to Space Telescopes
Title
Modern Marvels. Observatories - Stonehenge to Space Telescopes [electronic resource (video)] / A&E Television Networks, LLC.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], c1997.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on January 19, 2011.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Since the time of Stonehenge, now thought to be a possible lunar observatory, up until today's age of highly sophisticated telescopes, man has developed technology to assist in exploring the skies. Modern Marvels traces the history of the technology behind mankind's stargazing.
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Observatories - Stonehenge to Space Telescopes
Stonehenge to Space Telescopes
Films on demand.
Modern marvels (Television program)
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Originally produced: A&E Television Networks, LLC, 1997.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
10 & up.
Contents
Early Astronomical Observations (3:12)
George Hale (4:40)
Edwin Hubble and the Expanding Universe (2:36)
Giant Eye Announced (2:21)
The Perfect Mirror (4:18)
The Palomar Dome (5:44)
The Hale Telescope (3:36)
Hubble Space Telescope (5:38)
Disaster (3:02)
Repairing the Space Telescope (4:28)
Children of the Stars (3:37)
Credits: Modern Marvels: Observatories - Stonehenge to Space Telescopes (0:21)
Videorecording number
42876 Infobase
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Educational films.
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