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    • Title:Tall buildings [electronic resource (video)] / TVF International (Firm)
    • Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2007], c1998.
    • Physical Description:1 streaming video file (24 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
    • Links:Streaming video

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    • Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
    • Notes:Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Feb. 09, 2007.
      Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
      Title from distributor's description.
    • Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
    • Summary:Building upward has long been a means for people to show off their wealth or power. This video explores the ambitions and limitations of the engineers of skyscrapers. Visits to a medieval Manhattan in Italy, the first true European skyscraper, and Europe's tallest building, in Germany, are featured.
    • Variant and related titles:Films on demand.
    • Other formats:Originally produced: TVF International (Firm), 1998
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Series:How Did They Build That?
      How did they build that?.
    • System details note:System requirements: FOD playback platform.
    • Audience:11 & up.
    • Contents:Medieval Towers of San Gimignano (3:40) -- Masonry Construction in Medieval Towers (3:52) -- From Masonry to Reinforced Concrete Frame (4:07) -- Concrete Frame Revolutionizes Construction (3:14) -- Skyscraper: Innovative Construction Design (3:11) -- Ecologically Engineered "Intelligent" Skyscraper (3:46)
    • Subjects:Civil engineering.
    • Genre/Form:Educational films.
      Internet videos.
    • Also listed under:Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
      Infobase.
      TVF International (Firm)
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15581771