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In this 2-part series, biomedical engineer Dr. Jordan Nguyen tries to make a boy's wildest dreams come true with cutting-edge technology. He's promised 13 year-old Riley Saban he will invent a device to help Riley achieve the impossible and even have a super power. Will Riley be able to train his brain to use Jordan's technology? Will Jordan's technological vision become reality? And will Riley get his superpower?
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This episode of the U.S. Army covers three separate stories that are interrelated in a pictorial report format. The first deals with medicine, the second with experimentation, and the third with construction. But all are concerned with some of the Army's peacetime roles. With footage provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, this fascinating documentary introduces viewers to the role of Army medicine in relation to civilian disaster;...
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This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series profiles the Army Corps of Engineers to tell the story of past and present accomplishments and what the Army engineers mean to our nation in peace and war. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration celebrates this elite corps for its continued service.
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This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series tells the exciting story of several Inter-American Geodetic Survey teams and their adventures in mapping the jungles, deserts, plateaus, and towering Andes of Latin America. The recently discovered ruins of the ancient Incan city of Machu Pichu and the mapping of the tragic town of Ranrahirca buried in the avalanche of January 1962 from before and after aerial photographs play...
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This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series presents the first detailed release of a previously highly classified military project: Operation Blue Jay, in which the Army Corps of Engineers were faced with an almost impossible task of building a huge airbase in the frozen Arctic. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration captures on film one of the most spectacular engineering feats in recorded history:...
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People are the life-blood of cities. Its transport links are its veins and arteries. If they're cut-off the city will die. Thousands of people work every day at making it possible for city dwellers to be where they need to be, when they need to be there. It's an endless task demanding brain and brawn. Without the army of drivers, diggers, planners, thinkers, our great cities would come to a halt.
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This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series features such natural disasters as hurricanes and floods, which struck Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts during the summer of 1955. Viewers learn how the Army Corps of Engineers, National Guard, and American Red Cross provide disaster relief aid and rebuild infrastructure after a natural catastrophe on U.S. soil. This film is from the National Archives...
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In this episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series, combat engineers are seen building roads in Burma, constructing airstrips in North Africa, and relieving flood victims and communities in times of disaster. Audiences are introduced to the men and women whose job it is to provide combat engineers in the field with the equipment they need when they need it - the United States Army engineers, who are "Standing by - ready when needed,"...
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This classic episode of The Big Picture series produced by the U.S. Army follows army engineers across dangerous wastes of ice and snow as they construct roads stretching deeper and deeper into the Arctic. New problems and new dangers constantly present themselves as snow and ice cover the land and prevent engineers from reaching the dirt, or fill, needed for road building and dangerous, man-killing crevasses are formed. With captivating footage from...
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Throughout the 19th century, the defense of America was the main task of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It eventually took on the closely related duty of civil works. Because of the incredible diversity of projects the Army Corps of Engineers has taken on, it continues to remain on the cutting edge of science and technology.
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The story of a research and development project in Greenland, which was undertaken by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, is the focus of this film from the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series. Referred to as Camp Century, this city under the ice cap is a new concept of polar construction. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration shows viewers how snowy wastelands have been turned into a city equipped with...
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Nikola Tesla electrified the world, but his bizarre vision of the future branded him as a mad scientist. A century ago, Tesla created energy-efficient light bulbs, foresaw today's oil consumption issues, and the need for alternative energies like geothermal and solar power. Can the keys to a brighter future be found in the long neglected writings of this discredited genius?