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Just the Facts - Inventions That Changed Our Lives (6 Pack)
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Just the Facts - Inventions That Changed Our Lives: Communications & Transportation
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Just the Facts - Inventions That Changed Our Lives: Inventions & Innovations
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COMMUNICATIONS & TRANSPORTATION INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
MEDICINE PLASTIC PLANET THE TECHNOLOGY OF WARFARE
THE WONDER OF ELECTRICITY
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How many of us take for granted the ease of split-second communication? Not so long ago, daily mail (now dubbed "snail mail") was delivered by carriers and phone calls were revolutionary. And it wasn't so long ago that automobiles were a newfangled phenomenon.
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Inventions and Innovations explains how the atom is the basic building block for inventions that attempt to conquer the skies, explore the ocean depths and unlock the limitless opportunities of computers and the Internet industry.
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Just the Facts - Inventions That Changed Our Lives: Medicine
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Just the Facts - Inventions That Changed Our Lives: Plastic Planet
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Just the Facts - Inventions That Changed Our Lives: Technology of Warfare
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Inventions that preserve life are the most vital of all! Medicine presents an astonishing review of man's struggles against simple infections and deadly diseases until miracle medical inventions were discovered to fight back.
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Plastic is the 20th Century's magical, miracle material. Plastic Planet highlights the progress of this artificial medium and how it imitates "Mother Nature.” From action figures to the credit card, plastic has flexibly, cheaply and colorfully impacted and improved nearly every aspect of life on Earth.
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When words are ineffective in resolving conflicts between nations, war is often the result. Merely surviving is not the goal, winning is. To do so, nations rely on the latest technologically advanced weapons. They also rely on their soldiers.
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Just the Facts - Inventions That Changed Our Lives: Electricity
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Just the Facts - Inventors That Changed America (2 Pack)
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Just the Facts - Inventors That Changed America: On the Go & Medical
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he modern world never sleeps, but it still dreams. It's these nighttime visions that electrify our lives when they become a reality. These everyday electrical products bring the world's best entertainers into the room and help lighten workloads, yet they're often overlooked unless they break. Then these workhorses – such as the radio, washing machine and refrigerator – get their due respect.
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In this dynamic 2 pack, featured Just the Facts titles include: On the Go & Medicine and Strong Connection
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Science marches forward, led by great inventors who changed America and the world. This program focuses on inventors who revolutionized transportation and those whose medical discoveries made the world healthier and safer.
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Just the Facts - Inventors That Changed America: Strong Connection
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Just the Facts - Historical Icons: Alexander Graham Bell
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Inventors - A Century of Flight
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Science marches forward, led by great inventors who changed America and the world. This program focuses on inventors who revolutionized communications and those whose brilliance gave us lasers, plastic, computers, and transistors.
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Explore the life of, Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847-August 2, 1922), a Scottish scientist and inventor who immigrated to Canada. Today, Bell is widely considered one of the foremost developers of the telephone, together with Antonio Meucci, inventor of the first telephone prototype, and Philipp Reis
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From the Wright Brothers to Charles Lindbergh; from the DC-3 to the F-117; the 20th century has been defined by remarkable aircraft and the people who have flown them.
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Inventors - Benjamin Franklin
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Inventors - Famous Inventors and Inventions
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Inventors - Henry Ford
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This program commemorates the life of Benjamin Franklin, one of the most prominent Founders, early political figures and statesmen of the United States.
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Learn about some of the most significant inventors that ever lived: Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver, and the Wright Brothers.
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This program presents the story behind Henry Ford, a man unique to his world. A man whose vision and drive created the backbone of the Industrial Revolution and the American automobile industry.
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Inventors - The Life and Mind of Albert Einstein
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Inventors - Thomas Edison
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Take a journey inside the mind of a genius. Albert Einstein was considered by many to be the greatest thinker of the 20th Century.
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This program presents the life of Thomas Edison, a true "rags to riches" story.
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