Title Engineering disasters 15 [(DVD) videorecording] / produced by Actuality Productions, Inc. ; History Television Network Productions ; producer, Bruce Nash ; written and produced by Joanne Fish.

Publication Info.	[New York] : A & E Television Network, [2004]
	Distributed in the U.S. by New Video.
	©2004

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1605063~S1

Location	Call No.	Status
Nichols Adult DVD Nonfiction	624.171 ENG	AVAILABLE

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Description	1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details	DVD.
Note	Originally broadcast in 2004 as a segment of the television series Modern marvels on the History Channel.
Credits	Narrator, Max Raphael ; editor, Motoshi Wakabayashi ; music, Alan Ett Music Group.
Summary	Examines: a series of construction errors which causes a devastating flood that brings Chicago to a standstill; two buildings, halfway around the world from each other, that collapse from the same type of shoddy construction methods--14 years apart; a cockpit warning system that malfunctions, causing a fiery, fatal crash before takeoff; three boilers that explode on a Mississippi riverboat, killing thousands of Union soldiers; and a deadly accident that traps hundreds in a smoke-filled Alpine tunnel with inadequate ventilation.
Terms Of Use	"This program may only be used for private home and non-profit educational use" --DVD container.
Subject	Structural failures -- Videodiscs.
	Engineering -- Videodiscs.
	Disasters -- Videodiscs.
	Accidents -- Videodiscs.
	Floods -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Videodiscs.
	Piling (Civil engineering) -- Videodiscs.
	Sultana (Steamboat) -- Videodiscs.
	Steam-boiler explosions -- Videodiscs.
	Airplanes -- Cockpits -- Warning systems -- Videodiscs.
	Tunnels -- Ventilation -- Switzerland -- Videodiscs.
Genre	Documentary films.
	Instructional films.
	Nonfiction films.
	DVD-video discs.
Added Author	Fish, Joanne.
	Raphael, Max.
	Nash, Bruce M.
	Wakabayashi, Motoshi.
	Actuality Productions.
	History Channel (Television network)
	Arts and Entertainment Network.
	New Video Group.
	Alan Ett Music Group.
Added Title	Modern marvels. Engineering disasters 15
	Engineering disasters fifteen
Note	Title on disc: Modern marvels. Engineering disasters 15
Added Title	Modern marvels (Television program)
Standard No.	733961760101
Music No.	AAE-76010 History Channel

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