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Engineering disasters / produced by Actuality Productions ; Hearst Entertainment ; producer, Bruce Nash ; written & produced by Dean Vallas ; graphics & animation, Doug Whitney.
LIBRA VHS TA169.5 .E54 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- System failures (Engineering)--Case studies.
- System failures (Engineering).
- Disasters--Case studies.
- Disasters.
- Engineering design--Case studies.
- Engineering design.
- Genre:
- Television programs.
- Documentary television programs.
- Case studies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on cassette label: Modern marvels, Engineering disasters
- Place of Publication:
- New York : History Channel : Distributed by New Video Group, [1999]
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- A look at some of the worst tragedies in human history-- disasters that have claimed the lives of hundreds of people in one fell swoop and that might have been prevented. Covers the period from ancient times to the present day in order to tell the stories of these calamities. Includes stories from survivors of plane crashes and industrial accidents. Attempts to analyze what went wrong in events such as the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Includes computer animation to illustrate the anatomy of some of the disasters.
- Contents:
- The 20th century
- Kansas City Hyatt
- Teton Dam
- Fear of flying
- Aluminum
- Flight 800
- Heartbreak
- The Hubble
- Industrial disasters
- The worst of the worst.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Harlan Saperstein.
- Credits:
- Camera, Shaun Donahue, David Sperling, Ted Thorton ; music by Alan Ett ; edited by Jack Foster.
- Notes:
- Originally broadcast in 1998 as a segement of the History Channel program Modern marvels.
- ISBN:
- 0767017374
- OCLC:
- 43379882
- Publisher Number:
- 733961423372
- AAE-42337 A&E Home Video
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