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There is a compulsion which drives men and women to chart the unknown. That an explorer's existence is austere, laborious, and dangerous is often dismissed when explorers and exploration are discussed. The book is considered with both, but not only in the usual geographical sense, but also in an ecological sense, as undersea and space exploration are ... explored. Vivid and immensely readable, the books unfolds a vast narrative with the excitement...
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Biographies of four of America's first women explorers: Annie S. Peek, Delia J. Akeley, Marguerite Harrison and Louise A. Boyd. Louise Boyd made numerous trips through the Arctic, including Spitzbergen, Franz Josef Land and the fiords of east Greenland. Marguerite Harrison made trips across Siberia.
6) Explorers
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Provides a chronological overview of exploration since the late nineteenth century, detailing the successful and failed expeditions that traveled the globe across terrains including ice, peaks, deserts, jungles, seas, and underworlds.
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For nearly 50 years, chemical engineer and inventor Maria Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the power of the sun, including designing and building the world's first successfully solar-heated modern residence. Along the way, she was undercut and thwarted by her male boss and colleagues at MIT, but persevered despite these obstacles, holding more than 20 patents upon her death.
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Lost on Everest shines a light on what happened to Andrew "Sandy" Irvine and George Leigh Mallory, who set out to attempt the first true summit of Mount Everest in 1924. A team of professional climbers, filmmakers and experts led by journalist Mark Synnott and Nat Geo photographer Renan Ozturk attempts to discover whether Irvine and Mallory successfully conquered the world's tallest mountain.
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This film offers an in-depth portrait of the man who created the atomic bomb and changed the world forever. Featuring interviews with the widely respected authors and historians Alexander Larman and Guy Walters, the film also explores Oppenheimer's later preoccupation with the potential dangers that scientific inventions could pose to humanity.
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The second in series charts the story of exploration in the 20th century. 20th-century exploration began with flag planting in the name of empire, and over the decades, improvements in technology saw explorers take on greater and greater challenges - pursuing prizes from the poles, to the highest points on earth - and beyond. The incredible individuals who took humankind to the limits of what was thought possible also oversaw an evolution - as time...
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This episode sees naturalist Chris Packham assess the lives of the 20th century's greatest scientists. Chris examines the lives of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing and Tu You You. He explores some of their most famous discoveries - as well as the lesser known human stories behind them - so often overshadowed by the scale and impact of their work. In the 20th century, advancements in science saw life expectancy double; they helped us advance...
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Samuel Morse lived from 1791-1872; his passions were painting and engineering. Morse achieved fame fromthe invention of the telegraph and telegraph alphabet. In this Film Ideas video, explore Morse'searly life, education, painting success, and endeavors to create atelegraph device; he sent the first telegram in May 1844.
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This remarkable story about the extraordinary life and inventions of Guglielmo Marconi, the father of wireless communication, is told by his daughter, Elettra.
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Ferdinand Magellan lived from 1480-1521. Reaching eastern lands by sailing westward, the man who started a rebellion aboard ship accomplished what Columbus had hoped to achieve. In this Film Ideas video, explore Magellan'searly life, naval service, and expeditionthat resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth; natives killed Magellan and dismembered his body in 1521.
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Amerigo Vespucci lived from approximately 1451-1512. Accused of stealing Columbus' fame, the Italian explorer inspired the name America. In this Film Ideas video, explore his early life, career as a financier,expeditions for new lands, and life after voyage retirement; he explained thediscovery of an unknown continent in a 1503 letter addressed to Lorenzo Medici.
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A Nobel Face: Christian de Duve is an intimate look at the life and work of the 1974 winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and founder of the De Duve Institute by his granddaughter Aurélie Wijnants, the film's director. Wijnants introduces us to the figure of her grandfather with tenderness and humanity. A balance between the intimate and the universal, both life story and a broader look at the world. The film follows his research career, his quest...
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On the Go: British train engineer Richard Trevithick gave the world its first steam railway locomotive in 1804. Henry Ford was a brilliant mechanic with a vision: he wanted to make cars affordable to all classes of society, not just the wealthy. Wilbur and Orville Wright, who owned a bicycle shop, made history on December 17, 1903, with their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and changed history because they preferred wings to wheels. Robert...
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Madame Curie lived from 1867-1934. The French physicist was the first to person to research radioactivity and the first woman to receive her doctorate atSorbonne University. In this Film Ideas video, explore Curie's early life, education, romantic life, experimentation inradioactivity, and scientific career.
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