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Rajan, Rekha S.Summary: Melodrama "The Skyscrapers of New York" Part 1. Part 1 sets the scene with shots of real work crews: bricklayers, riveters, workers sitting astride the steel framework setting a girder in place, several workers hanging on a crane line, etc.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1906
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Summary: Interior of NY Subway, 1905, in the first year of the subway's existence. Good travelling shots of tunnel interiors and subway station platforms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1905
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Summary: In this episode of Modern Marvels, filmmaker Ken Burns studies the design, construction, and meaning of the Statue of Liberty.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Summary: The engineering problems were stupendous; the solutions ingenious. And as stated by President Herbert Hoover himself, it was “the greatest engineering work of its character ever attempted by the hand of man.” For two years, five thousand workers settled in the Nevada dessert to pour concrete day and night until the Hoover Dam was complete - remarkably under budget and ahead of schedule. As...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: On the morning of January 8, 1902, a southbound commuter train traveling through a smoky, congested tunnel in New York City's Grand Central Depot slammed into the rear of another train, instantly killing 17 people and injuring 38 more. An engineer's innovative response to the crisis gave birth to one of America's greatest establishments: Grand Central Terminal. Upon its opening on February 12,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Panorama from tower of Brooklyn Bridge (on the Brooklyn side) Starts looking southwest then fast pan north along East River shoreline, across the bridge itself & continuing on north.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1990
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Rajan, Rekha S.
Summary: "This accessible nonfiction compendium explores the creation of 10 global landmarks, from the first spark of an idea to the final layer of paint. Acclaimed educator Rekha S. Rajan encourages readers to see themselves as the engineers, builders, architects, and more through interactive stories and a unique structure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022