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NASASciFiles - History of Transportation
(2004)
NASA Sci Files segment exploring the history of transportation including inventions such as the wheel, the steam engine, and the combustion engine. Genre: Educational Keywords: NASA Sci Files; Technology; Transportation; History; Automobiles; Wheel; Steam Engine; Combustion Engine; Model T Ford; Mesopotamia; Nicolas Joseph Cugnot; Gottlieb Daimler;; Karl Benz; Aerodynamics; Drag; Air Resistance; Bicycle; Asia; Mass Transportation; Locomotives; Trains; Subway; Trolley; Horse Cars; Duration: 00:03:41 Popularity (downloads): 2217 |
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Diesel Story
(1952)
Traces the development of the diesel from the Otto 'SILENT' gas engine of 1877, through Rudolph Diesel's engine, to the machines that now drive ships, trains, tractors, trucks and cars.... Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Duration: 00:20:00 Popularity (downloads): 357 |
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Down the Gasoline Trail
(1935)
Cartoon showing what happens to a drop of gasoline from the time it flows into the gas tank to when it is exploded in the engine cylinder. This 'fantastic voyage'... Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering;Oil industry;Animation: Advertising; Duration: 00:07:55 Popularity (downloads): 449 |
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NASADestinationTomorrow - DT4 - Hyper-X
(2001)
NASA Destination Tomorrow Segment exploring NASA's Hyper-X program that is working on experimental engine designs that could propel commercial planes into space and make conventional rockets a thing of the... Genre: Educational Keywords: NASA Destination Tomorrow; NASA; Hyper-X Program; Commercial Planes; Scram Jet; Propel; Aircraft; Space; Conventional Rockets; Technology; Astronauts; Engine Design; X-43; Air Breathing Engine; Altitude; Supersonic Combustion Ram Jet; Fan Blades; Velocity; Fuel; Thrust; Compressor; Gravity; Hydrogen; Oxygen; Orbital Velocity; Duration: 00:06:45 Popularity (downloads): 1943 |
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NASA Connect - XPG - Model Testing
(2004)
NASA Connect segment explaining how models are tested to create more efficient designs. The video explores the new X-33 engine and explains what engineers learn from scale models. Genre: Educational Keywords: NASA Connect; Model; Scale; Testing; Engineers; Design; Linear Aerospike Engine; Conventional Engines; X-33; Nozzle; Ramp; Bell-Shape; Vertical Stabilizer; Space Vehicle; Venture Star; Duration: 00:01:57 Popularity (downloads): 1491 |
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Free Air
(1937)
Dramatic depiction of how gasoline and air mix to provide power in the automobile engine. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering; Duration: 00:09:38 Popularity (downloads): 725 |
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What Makes Us Tick
(1952)
Cartoon promoting the stock market as the engine of America's prosperity. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Economics;Investing;Animation: Advertising; Duration: 00:11:35 Popularity (downloads): 135 |
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NASASciFiles - Flying A Plane
(2003)
NASA Sci Files segment demonstrating how cockpit controls negotiate the forces of flight. Genre: Educational Keywords: Rudder; Elevator; Yoke; Climb; Descent; Gravity; Drag: Thrust; Lift; Engine; Propeller; Synthetic Vision; Duration: 00:01:55 Popularity (downloads): 1742 |
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Exclusively Yours
(1954)
Texaco sales film aimed at Texaco dealers, introducing a new high octane gasoline with the additive ""Petrox."" Excellent cutaway engine illustrates pistons in use; also good animation of same.... Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Duration: 00:00:00 Popularity (downloads): 296 |
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Something for Nothing
(1940)
Cartoonist Rube Goldberg creates a little animation to explain how fuel is converted to power in the modern automobile engine. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Animation: Rube Goldberg;Automobiles: Engineering; Duration: 00:08:47 Popularity (downloads): 993 |
