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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Understanding the world's greatest structures
    sub title: science and innovation from antiquity to modernity
  title info:
    title: Science and innovation from antiquity to modernity
  name:
    name part: Ressler, Stephen J.
    role:
      role term: teacher.
  name:
    name part: Teaching Company
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Filmed lectures.
  genre: Educational films.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: vau
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: videodisc
    extent: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 204 pages ; 19 cm.)
  abstract: "Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity -- a marvelous learning experience that takes you around the world and reveals the stories behind the most famous bridges, churches, skyscrapers, towers, and other structures from thousands of years of history. These 24 lectures take you on a fascinating and richly illustrated tour that deftly blends history and science to create an unforgettable survey of our world's most remarkable structural masterpieces, one informed by the fundamentals of structural engineering and their underlying scientific principles."--Publisher.
  table of contents: Disc 1. Learning to see and understand structure -- The science of structure: forces in balance -- Internal forces, stress, and strength -- From wood to steel: properties of materials -- Building up: columns and buckling -- Building across: beams and bending.
  table of contents: Disc 2. Trusses: the power of the triangle -- Cables and arches: the power of the parabola -- Loads and structural systems -- Egypt and Greece: pyramids to the Parthenon -- The glory of Rome in arches and vaults.
  table of contents: Disc 3. Three great domes: Rome to the Renaissance -- How iron and science transformed arch bridges -- Suspension bridges: the battle of the cable -- Suspension bridges: the challenge of wind -- Great cantilever bridges: tragedy and triumph -- The rise of iron- and steel-framed buildings.
  table of contents: Disc 4. The great skyscraper race -- The beauty and versatility of modern concrete -- Amazing thin shells: strength from curvature -- Vast roof systems of iron and steel -- The incredible lightness of tension structures -- Strategies for understanding any structure.
  target audience: general
  note: Stephen Ressler.
  note: Title from container.
  note: "Course Number 1153"--Container.
  note: 24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.
  note: Videorecording.
  note: Presenter, Stephen Ressler.
  note: DVD; NTSC.
  subject:
    topic: Structural design
  subject:
    topic: Structural engineering
  classification: TA658 .U64 2011
  classification: 624.177/1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Great courses (DVD)
      part name: Science & mathematics
  identifier: 1598037250
  identifier: 9781598037258
  identifier: ID1153A-01 Teaching Co.
  record info:
    record content source: DAD
    record creation date: 110412
    record change date: 20151202171810.0
    record identifier: in00002787276
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng