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Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections is a British documentary series originally broadcast on the National Geographic Channel, and later on BBC2. It is presented by Richard Hammond , and looks at how engineers and designers use historic inventions and clues from the natural world in ingenious ways to develop new buildings and machines.
Regular episodes reviewing films are released every other Friday, with ".5" episodes, or "minisodes," uploaded on the Fridays in between. These episodes feature Scheer answering fan questions, announcing the next movie, reading corrections, and opening fan mail. He also shares recommendations on books, movies, and TV shows.
Engineering the Impossible was a 2-hour special, created and written by Alan Lindgren and produced by Powderhouse Productions for the Discovery Channel. It focused on three incredible, yet physically possible, engineering projects: the nine-mile-long (14 km) Gibraltar Bridge, the 170-story Millennium Tower and the over 4,000-foot-long (1,200 m) Freedom Ship.
Episodes describe the landmark inventions that have enabled the engineers of today to construct the world's biggest structures, including computer generated imagery. The imagery shows the size of the object in meters, the various designs that were considered, and what might have happened if the engineers had made a mistake, complete with ...
An early review of the series by The Daily Beast posted when only the first two episodes were available reported that "Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space insistently pushes its message from the get-go". That message, according to Time's chief science editor Jeffrey Kluger, is that "Inspiration4 is "a hinge point in history, and will kick ...
The film has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [8] Sandie Angulo Chen of Common Sense Media awarded the film four stars out of five. [9]Nick Schager of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote that it "proves a rousing, and ravishing, call-to-engineering-arms for future generations, and should receive a welcome reception from its young target audience."
The final "Secret Life" programme broadcast, this episode covered not just physical technologies, but also the evolution of social engineering involved in the running of an office. Epilogue: An office goes haywire just after a holiday party, blowing paper everywhere, shaking binders and everything generally moving with a will of its own.