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Ancient Power
Title
Ancient Power [electronic resource (video)] / Parthenon Entertainment (Firm).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c2002.
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 September 11, 2013.
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
The use of steam from boiling water has been used as a source of energy going back to Heron of Alexandria who designed the first steam engine. This film discovers the ingenious machines that the ancients used to harness natural power. Could the Romans have had the first industrial revolution, 2,000 years before we like to think it happened?
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Ancient discoveries (Television program)
Other formats
Originally produced: Parthenon Entertainment (Firm), 2002.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Ancient Discoveries
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Introduction to Ancient Power (2:21)
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (2:17)
Roman Water Pumps (3:36)
Roman Aqueducts (3:24)
Roman Water Wheels (3:30)
Roman Water Power Industrialization (4:16)
Water Siphons at Aspendos (2:12)
Roman Plumbing in Briton (3:26)
A Roman Toilet House (2:11)
Roman Baths (3:31)
Solar Energy (1:11)
The Archimedes Death Ray (3:41)
Electrical Force (3:21)
Electrostatic Properties of Amber (2:34)
The Bagdad Battery (4:17)
Ancient Electroplating (1:32)
Reinvention of Ancient Discoveries (1:40)
Credits: Ancient Power: Ancient Discoveries (0:59)
Videorecording number
55088s Infobase
55094 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Parthenon Entertainment (Firm)
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