A look at several disasters caused at least in part by failures in engineering. Includes the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
From the end of world war 2, the rise of the Iron Curtain, the Wall in 1961, dividing Germany and Berlin, until the surprising fall of the wall in 1989 and the end of the cold war.
From the crash of an El Al 747 into an Amsterdam Apartment buiding to the collapse of an Indiana road bridge due to inadequate support during construction, this episode explores 5 engineering disasters and the changes each one brought about.
A look at the "nuclear football," the briefcase that holds the materials needed by the President of the United States to initiate a nuclear attack, and the military aides responsible for keeping the "football" within reach of the President at all times.
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Emma Maersk ON FIRE - World's Largest Container Ship
http://gCaptain.com brings you: The Emma Maersk is a true Modern Marvel. The largest contanership ever built, longest ship currently in service and is propelled by the largest diesel engine ever manufactured. By mid-year 2006 the construction project was going well when on June 9th the accommodation block was devastated by fire. Video by fire brigade 112-odense.dk More at: http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/200...
The collapse of the walkways in a Kansas City Hotel, an LNG explosion in Ohio, the fatal effects of asbestos, the failure of the Yangtze River levees and the resulting floods, and a sinkhole near San Francisco all illustrate the need for better engineering practices.
An exceptional documentary on the 1979 meltdown at Three Mile Island, a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, PA
For twenty years scientists have been studying the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster for people and wildlife. What they have found contradicts many common beliefs about the effects of radiation. As this film reveals, leading scientists are now questioning the assumptions that have for decades governed their thinking about the dangers of radiation.
In the world of surveillance, Big Brother is not only watching, he's also listening, analyzing, recording, scanning, and tracking every aspect of our lives. And with advanced surveillance technology, there's virtually no place to hide. SURVEILLANCE TECH examines some of the most important and potentially terrifying equipment the world has ever seen--or rather, not seen--in this thriving surveillance revolution. Check out parabolic microphones that pick up conversations a mile a way, cameras that learn what and who to photograph, RadarVision that "sees through walls", and Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). And explore the mind-bending future of surveillance technology, while, of course, reviewing its surprising history.
A flight from Argentina to Santiago, Chile disappears shortly before arrival at its destination. No distress signal was heard, but its last message was a mysterious word, repeated. No wreckage was discovered until many years later, when pieces of the vanished plane began to reappear, but not at the assumed crash site. This is a documentation of the invesigation of the cause of the mysterious crash.
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