Motor Car - The Secret Life of Machines - Video/DVD

Motor Car - 25 minutes This program is primarily about the car body shell and structure. Starting with history - take a bicycle and add an engine. Next Benz adds an engine to a tricycle. Initially wood was used for car frames. Henry Ford invented mass production in 1906. All-steel cars were produced in 1930s. Sheet steel on steel chassis. Demo - how you can cut steel plate with kitchen scissors. Pressed steel stronger - demo. Rounded shapes stronger. Demo of spot welding - box sections of steel plate - greater strength. Chassis frame with body dropped on top. Then chassis and frame made of box section plate - lighter. Citroen and Mini with front wheel drive. Amazing demo - engine and chassis separates from body (see pic). Computer design body for aerodynamics. Straightening out accident bent car on jig. How stunt cars are made safe. Demo. Effect of rust. Start of bodies made of plastic and stainless steel. Finally a car is crushed into a cube at the wreckers. Special notes

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	The Secret Life of Machines has been on TV around the world - USA, Australia, UK, Britain.... These award winning television programmes show how machines work. Using analogies, illustrations, working models and extraordinary experiments, Tim Hunkin 'lifts the bonnet' on the machines we take for granted. His enthusiasm for his subject is infectious. Excellent education and technology resources.
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