E1 - Thomas Edison

Aired: September 26, 1968

Thomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible technology shaping our world.

E2 - Human Engineering

Aired: October 03, 1968

E3 - Materials

Aired: October 10, 1968

A review of history of man's oldest materials: wood, stone, iron, bronze and glass.

E4 - Structure

Aired: November 07, 1968

Defying force of gravity, man has strewn his structures across earth. This program looks at some of them.

E5 - Communications

Aired: November 14, 1968

Much of this program deals with basic communications problem of getting a signal through noise.

E6 - Canals And Tunnels

Aired: November 21, 1968

The great engineers of past - men like DE Lesseps of Suez fame and Panama infamy and Bradley - whose canals were arteries of industrial revolution, sacrificed health and fortune, and sometimes lives.

E7 - Central Power

Aired: November 28, 1968

One test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new in 1876.

E8 - Man And Machines

Aired: December 05, 1968

The Greek inventor, Alexander Hero, first defined five basic devices which make all machines possible: lever, wedge, wheel, pulley and screw.

E9 - Land And Water

Aired: December 12, 1968

This program shows how man changes his environment by shaping land he lives on, reclaiming land from sea, making new lakes and rivers.

E10 - Man Aloft

Aired: December 19, 1968

This film looks, sometimes whimsically, at examples of old and modern flying machines.

E11 - Portable Power

Aired: December 26, 1968

Man's first "portable power" device was part of his own body, energy from contraction of long molecules in presence of sugar: muscle power.

E12 - Machines And Man: Transportation

Aired: January 02, 1969

Are problems of urban transportation insurmountable? The traffic jams which are a regular feature of city life make it appear so.

E13 - Machine And Man: Systems Engineering

Aired: January 09, 1969

A system, according to Oxford dictionary, is a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement, according to some scheme or plan.

E14 - Audubon

Aired: March 18, 1969

A study of life and work of Jean Jacques Audubon, great painter-naturalist who captured beauty of American wildlife on canvas.