The Incredible Human Machine (Widescreen)

Description You and your family can travel on an amazing journey through the inner world of the human body. Have you ever wondered how your taste buds or vocal cords look at close range? How your eardrum processes sound? How are your muscles able to move in so many ways? Or how does your eye adjust to changes in light? Tiny cameras explore up close the internal workings of the human body in this crash course in human physiology. Though made in 1975, the visual effects created by x-rays, microscopes...

Explore the wonder and mystery of the human body! -- Sophisticated photographic techniques take students on a journey through the microscopic universe in the body. -- How does the eye adjust to changes in light? How do our muscles allow us to move? How does the eardrum process sound? -- These are just a few of the many questions answered in this incredible program.

Actual Pages: 124.

"Incredible Human Machine" unearths amazing feats of medical advancement, from glimpses of an open-brain surgery -- to a real-time measurement of Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler's voice. (Scientists recorded his vocal cords flapping together 500,000 times and travelling more than six miles over the course of one concert!) This is a thought-provoking document of the phenomenal inner workings of our bodies. --RB

Description You and your family can travel on an amazing journey through the inner world of the human body. Have you ever wondered how your taste buds or vocal cords look at close range? How your eardrum processes sound? How are your muscles able to move in so many ways? Or how does your eye adjust to changes in light? Tiny cameras explore up close the internal workings of the human body in this crash course in human physiology. Though made in 1975, the visual effects created by x-rays, microscopes...