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Alexander Graham Bell’s Other Inventions and Contributions
This video highlights Alexander Graham Bell's achievements beyond the telephone, including his efforts to develop a bullet detection device to help save President James Garfield and his role in transforming National Geographic into a...
Curated Video
John Wesley Powell: Wild West Explorer
Despite losing an arm in the US Civil War, John Wesley Powell was one of the great explorers of the American West, and made history as the man who mapped the Grand Canyon.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Gilbert Grosvenor of National Geographic Society presents Anne Lindbergh with Hubbard Medal
Group shot of National Geographic Society men and Anne Lindbergh holding medal / CU Society president Gilbert Grosvenor and Lindbergh holding Hubbard Gold Medal / CU text and design on medal side / Grosvenor presents medal, other members...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt presents explorer Lincoln Ellsworth with the Hubbard Medal
President Franklin Roosevelt, seated in office, presents explorer Lincoln Ellsworth with Hubbard Gold medal in honor of his work in the Arctic and Antarctic. Ellsworth is third from left. Also in shot from L to R Mary Ellsworth,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Army-National Geographic stratospheric balloon taking off from and landing in South Dakota
Title "Strato flight" superimposed over aerial shot of inflated balloon / overhead shot at night of balloon in circle of lights just beginning to be inflated / men walking around tubes carrying gas going into balloon / balloon just...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Retired US Gen. John Pershing presents the Hubbard Medal to aviators Orvil Anderson and Albert Stevens
Title card: "News Flashes!" / WS Captains Orvil Anderson and Albert Stevens stand with General John Pershing / Pershing presents each captain with the Hubbard Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society / both captains thank Pershing
Curated Video
Hole in skull believed to be earliest gunshot wound in Americas
Must On-Screen Courtesy "National Geographic" - No Online Access
1. Wide shot of archaeologist brushing dirt off the remains of an ancient body
2. Zoom in on archaeologist brushing dirt off the remains of an ancient body
3. Mid of hands...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Albert Stevens and Orvil Anderson with balloon gondola Explorer II in 1935
POV from camera plane of balloon and gondola on ground prior to liftoff during the Stevens/Anderson attempt with Explorer II in the Stratobowl in South Dakota / VS balloon and Explorer II gondola move in sky / balloon deflates on ground...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Pakistan to deport National Geographic green eyed Afghan girl
An Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover will be sent back to the war torn homeland she first fled decades ago after a Pakistani court ordered Friday that she be deported
Curated Video
Akhil Rekulapelli outlasted nine other finalists and answered all three questions correctly in a one-on-one showdown with his youngest rival, 11-year-old Ameya Mujumdar, to win the National Geographic Bee. (May 21)
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Akhil Rekulapelli has his life mapped out. The 14-year-old wants to attend Stanford University and become a doctor, probably a surgeon.
But he knows it will be a while before he achieves...
Curated Video
USA - Clinton speaks on his visit to China
US President Bill Clinton on Thursday (11/6) defended his policy of engagement with China, two weeks before he becomes the first US president to visit Beijing since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
WS United States President Bill...
Curated Video
African farmer wins international award for harvesting rain water
1. Wide homestead
2. Close up of farmer Zephaniah Phiri Maseko reading a book about himself
3. Wide of Maseko reading
4. Pipes that drain water from slope
5. Close up of pipes
6. Wide pan of slope
7. Close of dug out that holds...
Curated Video
Scientists discover new 15-metre water-loving dinosaur
Picture the fearsome creatures of "Jurassic Park" crossed with the shark from "Jaws" ...
Then super-size to the biggest predator ever to roam Earth ...
Now add a crocodile snout as big as a person and feet like a duck's ...
Complement...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Fireworks | I Didn't Know That
What makes fireworks flash the way we like them, and what makes them burst in the sky? [3:11]