BBC Mechanical Marvels Clockwork Dreams 720p x264 AAC HDTV

Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams (HDTV)

Technology Documentary hosted by Simon Schaffer, published by BBC in 2014 - English narration



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Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams
Documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer which charts the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life.
The film brings the past to life in vivid detail as we see how and why these masterpieces were built. Travelling around Europe, Simon uncovers the history of these machines and shows us some of the most spectacular examples, from an entire working automaton city to a small boy who can be programmed to write and even a device that can play chess. All the machines Simon visits show a level of technical sophistication and ambition that still amazes today.
As well as the automata, Simon explains in great detail the world in which they were made - the hardship of the workers who built them, their role in global trade and the industrial revolution and the eccentric designers who dreamt them up. Finally, Simon reveals that to us that these long-forgotten marriages of art and engineering are actually the ancestors of many of our most loved modern technologies, from recorded music to the cinema and much of the digital world.



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* Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
* Video Bitrate: 3011 Kbps
* Video Aspect Ratio: 1.778 (16:9)
* Video Resolution: 1280 x 720
* Audio Codec: AAC LC
* Audio English
* Audio Bitrate: 148 Kbps VBR 48KHz
* Audio Channels: Stereo 2
* Run-Time: 59mins
* Framerate: 25FPS
* Number of Parts: 1
* Container Mp4
* Part Size: 1.30 GB
* Source: HDTV
* Encoded by: Harry65



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1) Further Information

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0229pbp

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