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Swamp People volume 6
Language
English
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As the season hits full stride, alligators begin changing their behaviors--and the hunters must adjust to stay one step ahead. Joey and Zak swap their trademark weapons (treble hook vs. fishing rod) to see who can nab the biggest bulls.
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Junk Raiders volume 6
Language
English
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After watching the containers transported to Evergreen Brick Works, there is no room for error enroute to completing the project, which includes hoisting both containers onto their structural supports. Will the team meet the challenge?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the 1870s, Alexander Graham Bell was trying to improve the telegraph when he and his assistant discovered that speech itself could be transmitted over telegraph wires. Explore the subsequent engineering developments that brought the telephone to almost all households, including Bell's invention of twisted-pair cabling to reduce crosstalk, still in use today.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the old-style analog telephone system, voltage increased and decreased across the wires, corresponding to the human voice signal. But in a digital system, that all changes. Learn how the human voice is changed into binary values, sent over the system, and then converted back into volts with the voltage applied to the speaker in the phone handset. The human ear takes it from there.
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Lost Corvettes volume 4
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English
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Upon applying the finishing touches to the 1956 Corvette they are restoring, the crew at Dream Car Restorations run into some wiring problems that put the whole car, made of fiberglass, at risk. With the issues behind them, the car shines.
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Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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35mm 1.33:1 color sound, 7:02 minutes; production assistance John Cage; music_Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2_by Franz Liszt; courtesy Warner Bros.,Turner Entertainment Co. A milestone in object animation, Fischinger manipulated hundreds of paper cutouts hung on invisible wires and shot a frame-at-a-time in close synchronization to Liszt's rhapsody. The dance of shapes resembles a voyage through an imaginary space where "the keen sensation of depth becomes...
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Cunning criminal mind Frank Salazar thinks he's planned the perfect heist. He's chosen his target, set up a hideout that's police-proof and contracted four of the best crooks in the business to be his partners in crime: Ray Forgy, a hot-head who can hot-wire any car around; Carlos Barrios, a small-time thief with a million dollar wardrobe; Max Green, an explosives expert with less than 20-20 eyesight; and nimble-fingered safecracker Nick Bartkowski....