02836cgm a2200481 4500 1163716848 TxAuBib 20101008120000.0 080430s2008||||||||||||||||||||||v|eng|u 9781593758196 $24.95 1593758197 $24.95 783421424494 WG42449 WGBH Boston Video TxAuBib Absolute zero [Video (DVD)] / produced and directed by David Dugan ; written by Tom Shachtman ; a production of Windfall Films and Meridian Productions for TPT/Twin Cities Public Television and WGBH/Nova in association with the BBC. [Boston : WGBH Boston Video, [2008] 1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. Nova Based on the book: Absolute zero and the conquest of cold / by Tom Shachtman. Originally broadcast on public television as an episode of the television program Nova in 2007. Anamorphic widescreen (16:9) format; Dolby digital. Special features include: printable materials for educators (PDF format). Narrator, Neil Ross. Presents the history of low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. The conquest of cold opens with experiments in the 1600s that asked what heat and cold are and whether they are different aspects of the same phenomenon. Shows how the experiments that settled those questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution. The race for absolute zero dramatizes the rivalry between Scottish researcher James Dewar and Dutch physicist Heike Onnes, who plunged cold science to the forbidding realm at which oxygen and then hydrogen turn into liquids. Shows how the quest continues today as scientists pioneer super-fast computing near absolute zero--the ultimate chill of -459.67⁰ F, where atoms slow to a virtual standstill. Not rated. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation ESI-0307939. DVD. Region 1; NTSC. Home use only. 20101008. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Optional audio-described video for the visually impaired. Low temperature research. Low temperatures. Cold. Science television programs. Documentary television programs. Films for the hearing impaired. Films for people with visual disabilities. Dugan, David. Shachtman, Tom, 1942- Absolute zero and the conquest of cold. Ross, Neil, 1944- Nova. TXKIP