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1) Joy
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
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Frank Einstein volume 2
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Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
3) Tesla
Publisher
Publication Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although eclipsed in fame by Edison and Marconi, it was Tesla's vision that paved the way for today's wireless world.
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Series
Frank Einstein volume 6
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Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival, this time studying the science and mysteries of the universe!"--
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House of robots volume 2
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Description
"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
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Series
Frank Einstein volume 1
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Description
In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
A "popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings. ... Winchester follows in the footsteps of America's most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the Great Surveys; the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate Highway System. He...
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Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy is hosting an Invention Olympics, but Tom suspects that the crew filming a new reality show about the academy may be planning something nefarious.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (4 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
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In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots-fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio-a past spent hunting humans. When...
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
August 1896: Victorian London is rocked to its foundations by a supernatural event which gives certain people, mostly women, abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. An epic fantasy/science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian women who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a mission that might very well change the world.
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Pengion Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
106 pages ; illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Description
As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on. As adults, the brothers worked together to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful airplane. This is the fascinating story of the two inventors and aviation pioneers who never lost sight...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Cravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.
18) BlackBerry
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men that charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone maker.
19) The thin man
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a retired detective who, while spending much of his time managing his wife's considerable fortune and consuming quantities of alcohol, is asked to follow the trail of a missing inventor. Although reluctant to interrupt his holiday in Manhattan, he is persuaded to investigate by his wife's craving for adventure, and together they embark upon a case that leads to the disclosure of deception and murder.
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