Audio Visual Materials

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• DVD 608.2 Robots see how they run.Shows how studying insects aids in the understanding of movement, and meets scientists who use their bug knowledge to create robotic inventions.  

• CHT 608 Inventions and discoveries.     Transport : 1.Road transport--2.Rail           transport--3.Sea transport--4.Air transport--Power: 1.Wind and sun--2.Water--3.Steam--4.Electricity--Everyday life : 1.Farming--2.Industry--3.The home--4.Machines in the home--Communications : 1.Radio and TV--2.Photography and the cinema--3.Telecommunications--4.Printing--Health :1.How the body works--2.Under the microscope--3.In the surgery--4.Repairs and spare parts--Stimulus charts: 1.Morse receiver--2.Experiments with the air pump--3.Benz Motor Car--4.Nineteenth-Century coal mining.  

• CHT 608 What is a tool.    Shows the different tools young inventors created for the 2000 Young Inventors Awards Program.  

• CHT 609 American inventions.  1. Early American 1750-1839 -- 2. Pre-Civil War 1840-1861 -- 3. Post-Civil War 1865-1900 -- 4. Pre-World War I 1901-1917 -- 5. Pre-World War II 1918-1939 -- 6. Post-World War II 1945-1990.   Each poster shows the most important inventions done the United States during these different historical periods.  

• DVD 608 Inventions for students.    Introduces students to inventions that have influenced how people live, and provides a behind-the-scenes look at how ideas become reality. In this volume, it takes a look to robots.  

• DVD 812 Benjamin Franklin scientist & inventor.    A portrayal of the peerless scientist and inventor who changed history with his experiments with electricity.  

• DVD 812 Confusion fusion.  Jimmy Neutron is a boy genius who loves to make machines that help make things work better. He involves his friends in his discoveries, sells candy for a school contest, learns about being an only child, and figures out how to cool everyone down on a hot day. He even invents a musical machine that plays sounds as you think them.  

• DVD 812 Thomas Edison.  Edison's legendary career as the "Wizard of Menlo Park" portrayed in detail.

• DVD 812 The Wright Brothers.Animated depiction of the lives of the brothers who made the first flight and how they ignored scoffers and risked everything for their dream.

• DVD 812 The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk.Charlie Brown & friends participate in the Wright Brothers historic flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

• VID 608 The great inventors. Linus' school report introduces the Peanuts gang to three American inventors: Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, Thomas Edison, developer of the light bulb, & Henry Ford who mass produced the first automobiles.  

• VID 608 Inventing in today's world.   An up-close look at how the process of invention has evolved throughout history. Featuring interviews with several modern-day inventors including Steve Wozniak, inventor of the personal computer.  

• VID 608.7 Inventors and inventions.  Surveys a variety of inventions, from compact discs and cellular telephones to better milk jugs, that help us live longer, learn better, be more productive, and enjoy our leisure time.  

• VID 608 Alexander Graham Bell. The true story of how Bell's work with deaf children inspired him, despite personal challenges, to invent the world-changing device of the telephone.

• DVD 608 Eli Whitney.A biography of the inventor of the cotton gin who also developed basic ideas of mass production in the manufacture of weapons and other machines.

• DVD 608 James Watt. Tells the story of an industrious Scotsman who set out to improve the efficiency of an existing piece of machinery, and in the process, sparked the Industrial Revolution!

• DVD 621.8 Telecommunications. A visiting inventor investigating a stream of flying boulders discovers the islanders’ primitive communication system and decides to help them upgrade to one that is more efficient and less dangerous.