Bob The Vid Tech; "Planes, Trains And Automobiles"

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This isn't just fun. Oh no. Don't you hate it when you wake up in the middle of a really good dream. You do get. A. Oh my gosh I nearly forgot. Hey mama we're are you right now. You already own homes are being sold Coke among a cow a fornia. How in Sesame Street's sake I'm I supposed to get to California. For. You.

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of the radio and you can't even cause the cable be there. That's red news. My video is moey has an operable range of about a hundred miles long and California is exactly two thousand six hundred thirty two miles away. They. Are supposed to take a plane train. Or automobile. Hey I know I'll check in with the NPT supercomputer. Hello supercomputer. Hello. You can call me Bob supercomputer. OK Robert Bobb. No. Just bought. Both K's bras are just fine. Known good ol Bob Casey No one knows what. I really have to fix this thing so what's the best way for me to get to coca monger California by plane train or automobile or plane. Please go to the sectors 0 1 1.

Don't forget the brightness of. Your breath is just a little bit stick a. That's not very nice. Sorry. No no Bob. Well then kids it looks like we're off on another cool adventure. Come on let's go. Slow the. Sectors 0 0 0. OK here we go. This play looks a little small to give you all the way to California now where at the College Park Aviation Museum in College Park Maryland. Let's go. Excuse me hello. I don't mean to interrupt. I'm sorry I didn't realize

you were here. Hello. I'm going to see the flying quickly when I bill for the governor. Oh by the way I will write a bicycle makers from Dayton Ohio. Excuse me. He's not real. Wow. Couldn't pull me on Bob the vids on which I married off how are you Bob. Good he said whose name was Wilbur Weber and or Paul Ryan are the brothers who flew in the Hawk North Carolina on Semper 17 19 0 3 then the first gentleman to do a sustained controlled flight. Why the Wright Brothers special the College Park they came here to College Park in 1999 to take the army off. Half of our airport is the oldest continually operating airport in the entire world. Do you have any airplanes we could go see about we have a home you see all of them. Come on cool let's go. Wow Mary what a cool plane this is made of metal. Oh no bomb it's made of

what they took wood. And they painted it. With a little bit. They didn't want people to copy their plane so they despise you know what else it might. Cost. They took off. And they. Read. The words. Right. Before they build their plane make that morning pizza. They were bicycle maker. No kidding they took bicycle parts and put their playing together fashioned bicycle seat for us here. The pedal to the brake on that one. So they were cycle washable torch to make. The parafoil So that's the beginning of what you. Know A. Kind of place to really stay up here hopefully don't. Well Bob there's a combination of things that make them stay in the air. The force of the wind moving over the wing. And underneath the weight and what helps the plane stay in the air and not calling out of the sky. Now we're going to take the place of paper and we're going to pull up on the piece of paper.

Now you say you're getting pressure under the weight. And overtop of the way. That. All of what helps. Keep that plane in the air. Thanks Mary. You're wrong from time to. Time to catch a plane. Wow. We're here in Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and this place is humongous. I wonder how an airport like this works well is pretty complicated but I can help you with that. Ricky Smith when he told me why don't people fly from city to city. Well simply because it's the fastest way to travel from one city to another. You can get from Baltimore to the west coast in only five hours so why do it. Well folks you know your desk and those in need know where you're going. About 20 million people flew to him last year. So you just fly people you know cargo as well lots of cargo cargo What's that. Well the food supplies building supplies. I'm stumped like that. What do I

need to fly on a plane. Well if you're going to stay overnight it's a destination you don't need two things. A plane ticket. And no baggage baggage or baggage at all the containers that the passengers used to store employees who can use toys give just about anything that they need. I wonder which plane I could buy a ticket for. We have over 20 passenger airlines that fly in and out of Long. Pick a city and pick your airline part above the big check. Hi I'm so Sue with all of these airlines to keep track of how do you do it well in the aircraft control tower we have air traffic controllers that monitor each flight for 11 use foxtrot on boxcars holds short of runway 33 left. I need three phases before you take off. There's clearance delivery ground control and local control. Before you even get on the airplane the pilot is calling their celebrity. To find out what their reply will be next for headings and altitudes. So it's kind of like their employee on the flight. That's exactly right. Next the pilot calls ground

control the street runs like a double pole the ground of the runway to a cold short from 1 3 to ridicule that controllers responsible for all movement on the ground including the vehicles. Well so they have to look at the vehicles the drive plus the points. Yes they do make sure that every want to say in the third phase when the pilot is ready to go he's at the runway. He calls local control measures to bring total control looks out the window to make sure you are at the right runway that's just 340. Then one night there. And then checked the radar to see who's coming and from 10 miles out and when it's safe to go along the trail will say cleared for take. Excuse me. How would I know when my plane to fall. Well when you first should take it you'd have a picture of the park the time that the plane. Airport and the plane will eventually arrive at the for your trainer does call the arrival time why you have to carry this on board. No action we can take that from him put in the belly of our aircraft with the rest the luggage. How many people can fit on a plane. Well there are small planes and there are big small planes they hold

about 9 people and think they can hold up to 400 people who fly the plane. They're called pilot. And there are two of them. There is the first officer and a captain. Do you think I can eat one. Sure I can arrange that for you. Bob I'm kept in touch. Like a very nice meeting. How did you become a pilot. Well when I was in high school I decided that I wanted to fly airplanes. So I went in the Marine Corps and they taught me how to fly. Fly the Boeing 737. How big is it. Well it's about 100 feet long. And the wingspan is about 117 feet and the tail sits up at about 41 feet. Have planes changed a lot over the years I mean do they use computers. Computers are widely used in their place know video flight instruments in my airplane are generated by computers onto a TV screen. Computerized the navigation systems computer. Do planes still need pilots. Absolutely they need pilots Bob because I love my job. All this place is amazing. Now if I could only find a flight to the Cuckoo cuckoo

among them. Among the. Cocoa Monga. I'm going to be like Come on let's go oh. Oh. Oh oh. Oh. Boy oh boy. Kids I can't believe I missed the last plane I guess now I'll have to take a train. OK Computer. Where to now. No windows on the first frames used to go to sectors 0 2 0 9 0. Sure got clocked. Where am I.

This is where I was told to catch the next train. Do you hear a train. Getting close. Look at it. Look at it. See. The movie I had a son when I was in the white. Wait a minute are you having fun with me. We're here at the. Museum in Baltimore. Hi I'm Bob the Vitex. Hi Bob I'm Evan Wright. Evan I need to get somewhere in a hurry. Will this man show me what dreams I can get over this map will show you where the very first trains in America when the very first. That's right. Mount Clair where we are right now is called the birthplace of American railroad because railroad started right here in Baltimore with the Baltimore and Ohio. Well how did people get around before trains they had to use force. Well they had to put their things on a boat and go down a river or a canal. The problem was. The. Canals didn't go into Baltimore so there was a group of people that decided that they needed a road of rails that went west to

Pennsylvania and Ohio. So how did they accomplish that. Well it took them two years to build the first 13 miles of the railroad that went to elec its mills. It's now called Pelican city. You can still take the first couple of miles of that trip on a ride that we have at the museum. Would you like to take it. I'd love to go. Railroad safety is very important so make sure that we all stay seated. Lee I wonder if this story goes to cuckold. 11. Flight.

That I was sure I. Would get the song is if this is. How. They were trains always that large. Even at the beginning actually about the first trains were pulled by horses. Come on get out the problem was that the horses got tired at the stop to get a new fresh horse every few miles they needed something stronger so they developed the steam locomotive does steam locomotive. How does Steve welcome motives work. Well it starts by boiling water. I mean like at home with a kettle to make tea. It's just like that. You boil water you make steam tries to expand and. Pushes against whatever's inside. That makes pressure. Steam goes through. Then it goes into a piston which pushes these big metal rods connected to the wheels. Turn. This is the first steam locomotive used on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1830. How did steam locomotives change well for one thing they got bigger

on this locomotive the boiler. Is laid down on its side so it's hard on a boiler that given a lot more horsepower horsepower. Now what's that all horsepower sort of a unit of energy that's defined as the pulling power of one horse. So what would 200 horsepower is what I think we should hundred horses. How fast are these first trains go so they can go up to 10 to 15 miles per hour that was faster than anyone had been before that they were afraid they'd gotten their arms and legs might even come off because they were going so fast I think I can I think I can I think I can. How did these trains affect our country's history. Well the social impact of trains was incredible. Before railroads most people in America never went more than 20 miles from where they were born after the railroads. They could do 20 miles or more every day. What kind of cars would a train like this fall but this locomotive might pull people in. Passenger trains a couple passenger cars. Also a. Freight train. That at the end will be a caboose. Why is it called cookbooks. Well answers to why it's called the caboose are all around

what you see in the car. See a bed over there. See a stove and a table. Everything you find in the House and the work of moose is a Dutch word that means a little house. So the caboose was a home for the crew while they were working on the truck. We had to look out of all these windows to see if there was any trouble on the tracks. I think I see trouble. While this is the coolest trainset I've ever see because the Baltimore and Ohio was America's first railroad. They had to learn how to do a lot of things for the first time. They had to learn how to lay the tracks what materials to use. They tried to stone. Sometimes it was good. They had to learn how to dig tunnels and build bridges. They made some mistakes but because of what they learned how to do all the other railroads learn from them. Our train still used a lot today all the time all the freight goes all around the country.

Passenger trains and then commuter trains subways light rail millions of people ride the train every day. Gee I wonder if there are any trains here that could take me out west. I love. When. The Webster. River. Humber. It. Could come I'm going to. Go come on up. That's why I train. I got a God. Wait. Wait stop I. Walked with. No way. To take this. I can't believe I missed the train. Who. And

now my last hope is the automobile. But who can help me with that. No no problem. Please proceed to sectors 0 0 1 player and help with automobile sector 0 0 0 0 0 1. 1. That's. Coming up next. On. Larry King with the five star eyes. Welcome to fishermen in high definition right. Next on file you know they were just rather good on TV we. Saw it has all the latest on Karkare and we'll see what's new at the auto shows. Here's some TV we're looking and we'll have another long term road test update one now I'm back at. Nearly public television and on photo we wipe our. Playbook. And I'm John Davis. We'll see you next time.

The big tech What are you doing here. I have a question I have to get to Kuka Monga California and I'm not sure the best way to get there should I go there by car. I know Bob it's an awfully long drive but I think I can help you as a matter of fact. Won't you follow me. Great see you next time on motorways. Hey these don't look like the cars I know. No wonder these cars were all made quite a few years ago. This one for instance was made in 1925. This is the Ford Model T. Is this the first car. No Bob actually there were a lot of cars before the Model T. And really a lot of inventors contributed to developing what we call the modern automobile and one of them was a Frenchman named Nicholas who back in 1769 produced the first self powered road vehicle that actually was a steam powered tractor. Then in 1876 a man named Nicholas auto invented what we now refer to as

the gasoline engine. But in 1885 Karl Benz designed and produced the first practical automobile. So when did people start making cars here. Well it didn't take long for Americans to get involved in 1893 bicycle makers Frank and Charles Duryea to develop the first commercial car manufacturing in America. Choice of all the squares that bush. Did in 1901 the domain name were in some polls included. Certainly want to line up all the parts in a row and make one car after another and his car was known as the Oldsmobile. But he was the man who built this car. Henry Ford that actually took the idea of the assembly line to new heights and in 1980 he started building the model T on the assembly line. He could build a car not in months weeks or days but in 93 minutes he was really something. Cool. John tell me what kind of cool things can cars do today. Cars today are much

better. They're much more comfortable they're much safer and they're much more efficient. Fuel efficiency is very important for a modern car. It's how far current can go on a gallon that's measured in what we call the MPG. And the higher the miles per gallon on a car the more efficient it is. And how fast the cars go to they go faster than they did years ago much faster on a race track some cars you know well over 200. For our. Club remember that's way over any legal speed limit. Seat belts are important too right you should always wear your seat belt. Always wear your seat belt. Now you hear about things like air bags and passive restraints and they're great but seatbelts come first. Why is it important that we have child safety seats car safety seats for kids are absolutely imperative in making sure the seat is installed properly is extremely important. Many parents don't know how to do it and they should get assistance. There sure is a lot to remember about automobiles. What about roads and highways. Where do I go to

learn about those. Johnny Davis please take no nos 5 2 6 2 0 1 9 for more help. Thanks John you're welcome Bob. Wow. Those are bigger screens than we have an MP to be when I was there watching shows about cars. Well actually they're not shows about cars. Those are live traffic cam a high above the big tech. Hi I'm Valerie and Maryland State Highway. Common Core statewide operation center. Do you think I could go downstairs and take a closer look. Absolutely. So why are they watching people drive cars. They're watching to make sure traffic keeps moving. If there's a crash they can send help right away. They can put messages on the digital signs and in fact we even have patrols in case you break down run out of gas or get a flat tire. We can help you and get you on your way. When did

roads begin. Well roads have been around for thousands of years. But the need for better roads came about when the automobile but sometimes so would cars get stuck in on paved roads. Well in the early 1900s we had dirt roads. We had some stone rows and we even had oyster shell road and all the horse and buggies and parts got stuck at about 190 no way. Marilyn created the State Road Commission and their job was to create hard surface roads to connect all the counties and when they connect to the county some people could drive and farmers to get to market and people could get around. So how did we build roads that connect all the states. Well the Army in 1999 went from Washington D.C. to California. And it took. 62 days. California. How to get to California. So what do they do. There was a young lieutenant colonel to white the Eisenhower who was on the track and he realized we need some better roads. All of our later became president and he worked on getting better roads in America the interstates. Those are roads that no stop lights and they connect state to state. So how would I get from Maryland to California. All you have to do is hop on the

highway and qualified to make those times right here in Maryland. Wow. That's the biggest sign of ever seen. Hi I'm Bob the Vitex. Hi Bob and Sonny Bailey. Sonny tell me what kind of signs do you make here to make speed limit signs existe signs that rollways signs of construction signs staff sign of children at play signs do not enter signs. Cattle crossing sign was. Running signs. No swimming signs yield signs. All Congress signed. How long does it take to make a sign like this. Obviously we're taking this grant person maybe a day to make a day so what do you put machine stamp it out it's done. You know that they had to put it together piece by piece. Then they had the later letters out for the holidays all in a vertical spacing. I mean this is handmade and made by a person. Yes if. You have any new signs you're working on smell the fact while I was working on the sign

right here. Monga I've got to get sick. Come on go. Listen you would have to have a card bar for a few days which is stunning. Bob do you have a license. How old do you have to be in Maryland to have a license in the state of Maryland you have to be at least 16 years raise. Oh it looks like I'm going to miss the vid tag family reunion. I can't believe I'm going to miss all the fun. Oh I'm so sad. I could cry. Mama John Day one I thought. It was supposed to come. To this group.

That. Want one up Outlook family reunion. Holy mackerel wrote it. Didn't write mama that. Well big kids at least we learned all about planes trains and automobiles like this model and didn't we have fun. Together. You can why don't the roads and highways in the car with Connect the train stations. You can take a train to get to the airport. Isn't that cool. Remember to hit. The mat away. Travel. Make sure you get there safely. This is positive to say thanks for being with us today. AS. The preceding program was made by NPT to serve all of our diverse

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