Milestones in Science & Engineering
Milestones In Science & Engineering
What makes the world go round? For an eager audience who simply must know the answers, there is now Milestones in Science & Engineering! In ...
Justus von Liebig – Agriculture Chemistry (Clip)
The idea and the practice of increasing crop yields through the use of artificial fertilizers can be traced back to Justus Liebig.
Charles Townes, Theodore Maiman: Laser Technology (Clip)
Today the laser serves countless uses in engineering, medicine and photography to name but a few fields.
Planet of Stardust - De La Place and the Origin of the Earth (Clip)
Today we know that all planets of the solar system are about the same age as the sun, approximately 4.5 billion years.
The basis for this ...
Horace Wells, William Morton, John Warren – Anaesthesia
For centuries pain was a dreaded attendant feature of any form of surgery. Then, in 1844, anaesthesia began its triumphal advance.
Robert Stirling and the Stirling Motor
Robert Stirling was the inventor of the first practical example of a closed cycle air engine - the Stirling Motor.
Force or Fiction? Gaspard De Coriolis and the Deflection of the Masses
The reason why weather forecasts are still very complicated even today can be explained by the Coriolis Force, named after the French ...
Gregor Mendel and Classical Genetics (Clip)
In 1865 Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel discovered the basic laws of heredity.
James Watson, Francis Crick and Genetics (Clip)
This Film shows how the processes of heredity take place on a molecular level and how modern methods of genetic engineering influence our ...
Robert A. Watson-Watt: Radar
Air-space surveillance for civil and military purposes, road traffic speed checks, satellite pictures for environment protection: this film ...
K.F. Braun: Cathode Ray Tube
Today the cathode ray tube – or Braun tube as it is also known in honour of its inventor – is the central element in all oscillographs, ...
Shockley/Bardeen/Brattain: the Transistor
This film reconstructs the technological revolution launched in 1947 by the invention of the transistor.
Radioactivity – Henri Becquerel, Marie and Pierre Curie
In 1896 Henri Becquerel discovered a new kind of radiation emitted by uranium compounds. But, in contrast to X-rayys which had been ...
From Pole to Pole - Karl Friedrich Gauss and Earth Magnetism
The best-known symbol for magnetism is the compass. Why compass needles point in a north-south direction was a mystery for a long time.