Ancient Greece : modern ship building / produced by Popular Arts Entertainment Inc. for History Channel Television Networks Productions, A & E Television Networks ; producer, Melody Shafir ; writers, Rick Dowlearn, Richard L. Schmidt ; producer/co-writer, Michael Guillen.
Publication Info.
[New York] : A & E Television Networks : Distributed by New Video, [2009]
1 videodisc (approximately 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Note
Documentary.
System Details
DVD; Dolby Digital stereo.
Note
Title from container.
Performer
Host, Michael Guillen.
Credits
Directors of photography, Matthew Davis, Jonah Torreano ; music, Scorekeepers Music.
Event
Originally broadcast on History television in 2005.
Summary
Get an up-close look at a reproduction of a trireme, or ancient Mediterranean warship. See the reproduction of the gigantic cargo ship Syracusia capturing the vessels' original grandeur. Witness a demonstration of the Archimedean screw, a machine designed in the third century B.C. to pump water out of a ship's hold, and watch as another one of Archimedes' discoveries, the principle of buoyancy, is put to the test. In England, investigate the Antikytheara mechanism, a type of celestial computer that tracked the movement of the sun, moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, and a handful of stars.
