| Description |
2 videodiscs (ca. 4 hrs., 18 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; Dolby digital, stereo. |
| Summary |
Titanic's achilles heel: follows the History crew as it explores the explosive theory that the doomed liner may have had a fatal design flaw one which could have caused it to sink even if it had not struck the iceberg. -- cover. |
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The Hindenburg: is a minute-by-minute re-telling of the events that led up to the disaster including the airship's origins, its remarkable engineering, its political implications and, finally, its fiery demise over a landing field in New Jersey. -- cover. |
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What went down: Hindenburg, one of the world's foremost experts on the Hindenburg disaster recreates the tragedy to show a totally new vantage point from the inside. -- cover. |
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Tech effect: Hindenburg will examine the technology of the LZ 129, the largest manmade object ever flown. The engines will be profiled along with the various theories of the cause of the disaster, from sabotage to the official report citing a combination of leaking hydrogen, statically charged weather and wet ropes. -- cover. |
| Contents |
Disc 3: Titanic's achilles heel. |
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Disc 4: The Hindenburg -- What went down: Hindenburg -- Tech effect: Hindenburg. |
| Subject |
Titanic (Steamship)
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Hindenburg (Airship)
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Structural failures -- Case studies.
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System failures (Engineering) -- Case studies.
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| ISBN |
1422922863 (set) |
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9781422922866 (set) |
| Standard No. |
733961281040 (set) |
| Music No. |
AAAE281040 A&E Television (set) |
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AAAE281040LT2 A&E Television (disc 3-4) |
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