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Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity S1 Ep5: Building Up - Columns and BucklingBuilding up, which is one of the most potent human aspirations supported by engineering; how it has been done from antiquity to the present day with columns; learning about buckling, a stability failure that occurs in certain columns.![True History Channel]()

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Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity S1 Ep6: Building Across - Beams and BendingWhy beams are central to the aspiration of building across long distances; combining tension and compression; surveying beams in the Lion Gate at Mycenae and Norway's Raftsundet Bridge; investigating scientific developments.