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Engineering The Impossible: Student Power
Chris enlists a team of students to power a giant hamster-wheel powered crane. Can they raise a 5300 pound block of stone the way the ancient Romans did?
Added: Nov 11, 2010
Views: 4370 Views
Runtime: 01:59
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