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Big, Bigger, Biggest - Airport |
Heathrow Airport in London is the busiest international airport in the world. This film reveals how seven ingenious technological breakthroughs enabled engineers to build the most modern terminal of this super-structure Terminal 5. With its enormous free span roof and fully automated baggage system to the robotic vehicles speeding passengers to its doors, T5 is designed to feed 30 million extra passengers through Heathrow. Using a mix of spectacular CGI animation and on-location filming, this fi (More Info) Categories: Aviation, Engineering Duration: 00:45:09 Date Added: 2010-10-25 00:00:00 Views: 617 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here!  Add To Playlist
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Big, Bigger, Biggest - Building The Burj Dubai |
A Documentary featuring the building of The Burj Dubai now called Burj Khalifa, the world tallest building as featured on Channel 5′s Big, Bigger, Biggest. (More Info) Categories: Engineering, Technology Duration: 00:44:54 Date Added: 2010-11-07 00:00:00 Views: 1633 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Big, Bigger, Biggest - Cargo Plane |
Look at engineering leaps that have helped different types of structures go from big to bigger to biggest.
In This Episode: Standing as tall as a seven-story building, the Antonov 124 is the world's largest cargo plane. Discover the landmark aircraft behind its design. (More Info) Categories: Aviation, Engineering, Technology Duration: 00:47:07 Date Added: 2010-12-12 00:00:00 Views: 703 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Big, Bigger, Biggest - Space Station |
In Big, Bigger, Biggest: Space Station, Explore the world’s biggest space station.
The International Space Station orbits 350 kilometres above our heads, hurtling around the Earth at almost 30,000 kilometres an hour. It is one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Its crew performs vital experiments that will one day allow humans to live permanently in space. (More Info) Categories: Space, Engineering, Technology Duration: 00:46:43 Date Added: 2010-11-25 00:00:00 Views: 509 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Build It Bigger - Azerbaijan's Amazing Transformation |
After decades of Soviet occupation, Azerbaijan is reinventing itself. With a $6 billion a year renovation and 500 new developments, Danny Forster goes behind the scenes of Baku's construction projects: the Flame Towers and Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center. (More Info) Categories: Engineering Duration: 00:43:35 Date Added: 2011-06-13 00:00:00 Views: 644 Rating: N/A  Watch Full Documentary Here!
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Build It Bigger - Coaster Build Off |
Danny Forster launches headlong into scream engineering --- building, designing and riding some of the greatest roller coasters on the planet. Danny works with two construction teams who create every exacting detail to make the ride both scary and safe. (More Info) Categories: Engineering, Technology Duration: 00:42:33 Date Added: 2011-06-16 00:00:00 Views: 414 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Build It Bigger - Hurricane Proof Homes |
A new, high-tech method of construction is replacing homes damaged by hurricanes in the Gulf Coast. Danny will join a team of 100 factory workers as they race to build an entire house that can withstand 160-mph winds in just five days. When they finish, two halves of the finished house will be shrink-wrapped and loaded onto trucks for delivery. Danny will embark on a 200-mile journey in Mississippi to deliver the home to its new owners, and he will help with the final installation. (More Info) Categories: Technology, Engineering, Nature Duration: 00:42:32 Date Added: 2011-06-13 00:00:00 Views: 434 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Building The Impossible - The Roman War Machine |
The Roman ballista had not been built for over 2000 years. A team of international experts came together to replicate the efforts of Roman engineers. Carpenter Oak & Woodlands Timber’s engineering division joins that team for this epic endeavour!
Capable of harnessing enough energy to fire a 50-lb boulder over 400 yards and accurate enough to batter holes in castle walls, the Roman stone-throwing catapult - or 'ballista' - was powerful enough to bring opposing cities to their knees. (More Info) Categories: Weapons, Engineering, History Duration: 00:43:56 Date Added: 2011-03-27 00:00:00 Views: 503 Rating: 6.00/10 Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Destroyed In Seconds - Ep10 |
Destroyed in Seconds is a half-hour American television series that airs on Discovery Channel. Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, etc. The nature of the show closely resembles Real TV. The show uses real video of real events, and commentary explaining the destruction portrayed. Most videos have stock sound effects a (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Engineering Duration: 00:20:03 Date Added: 2011-05-03 00:00:00 Views: 380 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Engineering An Empire - Egypt |
Engineering an Empire is a program on The History Channel that explores the engineering and/or architectural feats that were characteristic of some of the greatest societies on this planet. It is hosted by Peter Weller of RoboCop fame. The executive producer is Delores Gavin. The show started as a documentary about the engineering feats of Ancient Rome and later evolved into a series. It originally ran for one full season of weekly episodes.
In This Episode: Twenty-five hund (More Info) Categories: History, Engineering, Society Duration: 01:30:53 Date Added: 2011-03-06 00:00:00 Views: 392 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Engineering Connections - Airbus A380 |
Nicknamed the Superjumbo, this passenger airliner is the largest in history. It's packed with cutting-edge technology but owes its very existence to the most unlikely breakthroughs - a Mongolian bow and a 19th century rocket. (More Info) Categories: Aviation, Engineering Duration: 00:45:39 Date Added: 2010-09-30 00:00:00 Views: 580 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Engineering The Impossible - Freedom Ship |
If successfully built The Freedom Ship will be the largest ocean going vessel in history, it will become a luxury city afloat travelling the world. This video addresses whether Freedom Ship is possible and how it would be constructed. (More Info) Categories: Engineering, Maritime Duration: 00:28:19 Date Added: 2010-09-02 00:00:00 Views: 875 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Extreme Engineering - Billions Of Barrels Of Oil |
Construction of Jackpine Mine Site. Destroying thousands of acres of muskeg to retrieve oil from the sand. (More Info) Categories: Engineering Duration: 00:20:28 Date Added: 2010-09-08 00:00:00 Views: 321 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Extreme Engineering - Boston's Big Dig |
Boston's Big Dig- How do you put a new, 10-lane highway 120 feet below downtown Boston without succumbing to crumbling earth, and without endangering the buildings and people above? It's happening right now. (More Info) Categories: Engineering Duration: 00:44:28 Date Added: 2011-04-06 00:00:00 Views: 346 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Extreme Engineering - City In A Pyramid |
This episode features Shimizu's Pyramid City, which would include dozens of 100-story skyscrapers with more than a million workers as part of a giant pyramid on the sea to provide more living space in Japan. Concepts such as construction robots, electricity issues, and building materials are examined. The pyramid could withstand a tidal wave, and perhaps protect the city as well. (More Info) Categories: Engineering Duration: 00:44:36 Date Added: 2010-11-24 00:00:00 Views: 348 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Extreme Engineering - Hong Kong Airport |
For decades, Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport served millions of travelers who made this cosmopolitan Asian city their destination of choice. But Kai Tak, situated in the heart of town, quickly outgrew its original mission, and it became clear a new airport needed to be built. Join Hong Kong's engineers and architects as they design a travel hub located 16 miles out to sea, requiring a massive land reclamation and the restructuring of two islands. The construction of Hong Kong Internationa (More Info) Categories: Engineering Duration: 00:44:29 Date Added: 2010-09-01 00:00:00 Views: 373 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Extreme Engineering - Kuala Lumpur Mega Tunnel |
Extreme Engineering unveils some of the most ambitious architectural plans of our times. Some are theoretical; others are in the works. But all of these modern marvels pose challenges that stretch the definition of what’s possible. Watch as jaw-dropping computer animation and first-hand accounts from builders, designers and engineers breathe life into the most extreme construction projects ever conceived. Episode 2: Kuala Lumpur floods. Fed up with the devastating damage of the 1999 and 2003 f (More Info) Categories: Engineering Duration: 00:43:30 Date Added: 2010-09-08 00:00:00 Views: 354 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Extreme Engineering - Stonecutters Bridge |
Suspended above one of the world's busiest waterways, the Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong will set a new record for the longest cable-stayed span, over a kilometer in length. Watch how they created such a huge bridge and the extreme engineering that was involved! (More Info) Categories: Engineering Duration: 00:43:30 Date Added: 2010-09-08 00:00:00 Views: 344 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Extreme Engineering - Super Stadium |
Extreme Engineering unveils some of the most ambitious architectural plans of our times. Some are theoretical; others are in the works. But all of these modern marvels pose challenges that stretch the definition of what's possible. Watch as jaw-dropping computer animation and first-hand accounts from builders, designers and engineers breathe life into the most extreme construction projects ever conceived. Episode 1: SuperStadium! The Arizona Cardinals Re-Invent the Football Field It's not just t (More Info) Categories: Engineering Duration: 00:43:03 Date Added: 2010-09-08 00:00:00 Views: 288 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Extreme Engineering - Transatlantic Tunnel |
Introducing the latest development from the minds of modern rail engineering: a 300-mph, magnetically levitated train that travels between Canada and Scotland...all while submerged in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Get a peek at exclusive designs of this truly extreme concept. Three interconnected, deep floating tunnels carry 300-mph, Mag-lev (magnetically levitated) trains between Newfoundland, Canada and Scotland. The trains make the 2,100-mile run in less than 7 hours, breaking into daylig (More Info) Categories: Engineering Duration: 00:49:38 Date Added: 2010-09-01 00:00:00 Views: 465 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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