Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Seven wonders of the industrial world [videorecording] / a BBC/TLC co-production ; produced and directed by Edward Bazalgette ... [et al.] ; series producer, Deborah Cadbury.

Publisher, Date:

[London?] : BBC Video ; [New York?] : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, c2008.

Description:

1 videodisc (approx. 343 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Presented in docudrama format, Seven wonders of the industrial world examines seven of the most important feats of civil engineering of the 19th and early 20th centuries: the SS Great Eastern; the Brooklyn Bridge, the Bell Rock Lighthouse, the Transcontinental Railway, the London sewer system, the Panama Canal, and Hoover Dam.

Subjects:

Great Eastern (Steamship)

Bell Rock Lighthouse (Scotland)

Civil engineering -- History.

Technological innovations -- History.

Pacific railroads.

Sewerage -- England -- London.

Documentary television programs.

Television programs for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)

Panama Canal (Panama)