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"Bill Nye shows how inventions in materials, tools, and other technologies have gradually allowed us to build bigger, taller, stronger, and longer structures. From canals and dams to tunnels and towers, this is the story of how we have reshaped our environment to suit our needs."--Container.
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"There are many ways to get around, but they weren't invented overnight. In Greatest inventions with Bill Nye : transportation, Bill Nye travels the long and winding road through the technology and history of transportation. From peddling and paddling to planes and maglev trains, this high-speed journey takes us from prehistory to the present. It's about how we got here. Literally."--Container.
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"Modern homes are filled with conveniences often taken for granted. But many of these appliances and creature comforts took years to grow into the forms we find so familiar today. Bill Nye explains the technology of the house and home. From plumbing and paints to microwave ovens and frozen foods, these advances have made life as we know it easier to manage."--Container.
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"Humans are naturally curious. That curiosity has drawn us to new lands and it has prompted us to devise new ways to explore our planet and beyond. Over the millennia, we have invented new devices -x-ray machines, telescopes, and submarines -that let us look inward, outward, and underneath. Bill Nye recounts the creation of technologies that let us see out world and ourselves better."--Container.