Modern Marvels. Episode 14, Quarries
(2022, original release: 2001)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
PUBLISHED
The History® Channel, 2001
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
13108664
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
Dynamite explodes hills to bits, drills divide sheer stone walls, 400,000-pound blocks are pulled from pits by giant cranes, and men work around the clock to wrest rock out of the earth. Not diamonds or gold...rock, the raw material of civilization! Without rock, modern society wouldn't exist. Roads, sewers, dams, bridges, buildings, paint, glue, make-up, antacids, and even chewing gum need crushed stone. From ancient days to the present, we explore the evolution of quarrying techniques
Film
In Process Record
Originally produced by The History® Channel in 2001
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English