This entire series of programs is brilliant, and watching re-runs of it on TLC (remember when they showed actual educational programming?) was one of my inspira

This entire series of programs is brilliant, and watching re-runs of it on TLC (remember when they showed actual educational programming?) was one of my inspirations for being an engineer. It was produced at time which I would characterize as a technological "sweet spot" where most of the technologies and appliances we rely on today had been invented, but everything had yet to become digitized and computerized so it could still be explained even without covering digital computers in any detail (well, except the program on computers of course).