Transportation
Season 1 Episode 3 | 49m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Journey across the world to discover the energy that brings us modern transportation.
Innovations in energy have revolutionized transportation over time from literal horsepower for horse drawn carriages to modern combustion engines, electric vehicles, and rockets. Transportation changes societies and our sense of place changes along with it. Machines help us travel over land and across the sky, but they require an enormous amount of energy.
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Transportation
Season 1 Episode 3 | 49m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Innovations in energy have revolutionized transportation over time from literal horsepower for horse drawn carriages to modern combustion engines, electric vehicles, and rockets. Transportation changes societies and our sense of place changes along with it. Machines help us travel over land and across the sky, but they require an enormous amount of energy.
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