Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers - 6-DVD Box Set (1994) ( Il tait une fois... les d couvreurs ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]

France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), French ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: The exciting story of the great discoveries and of those who made them, thus shaping the world to make it what it is today. From Chinese writing to the invention of the automobile, taking us from electricity, to vaccination, measurements, etc. Maestro guides us through the centuries introducing us to the greatest scholars...
List of Episodes:
1. The Chinese, our Ancestors
2. Archimedes and the Greek
3. Hero of Alexandria
4. The Measuring of Time
5. Henry the Navigator and Cartography
6. Gutenberg and Printing
7. Leonardo da Vinci, a Jack-of-all trades
8. The Doctors (Paracelsus, Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Par , etc.)
9. Galileo Galilei
10. Isaac Newton
11. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Discovering the Past)
12. Antoine Lavoisier and Chemistry
13. George Stephenson, Full Steam Ahead!
14. Michael Faraday and Electricity
15. Charles Darwin and Evolution
16. Gregor Mendel and Peas
17. Louis Pasteur and Micro-organisms
18. Thomas Edison and Applied Science
19. Guglielmo Marconi and Sound Waves
20. Henry Ford and the Adventure of Motorcar
21. Aviation (Otto Lilienthal, Wright brothers, etc.)
22. Marie Curie
23. Albert Einstein
24. Konrad Lorenz, Father of the Geese
25. Neil Armstrong, the Moon and the Space
26. Tomorrow? ...Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers - 6-DVD Box Set (1994) ( Il tait une fois... les d couvreurs )