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Super tech. Episode 15 / produced by Nick Farrow.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural disasters--Research.
- Natural disasters.
- Space sciences.
- Technological innovations.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (22 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Victoria, Australia : Switch International, 2004.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Episode 15 of "Super Tech" describes a new satellite constellation to monitor natural disasters; a cheap, but very effective way of carrying out research in the upper atmosphere; and the super computer that's being used to predict the course of wild fires. Other topics covered include: new cell phone safeguard, the first press photograph, balloons, an electronic textbook, a semiconductor breakthrough, a new breathing device, and power boats.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 885258029
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