01 Germany: Bundesbahn - computer and technology modern locomotive. Travellers with suitcases get on the train. The driver and the control centre on the phone in the locomotive. Computers are used for traffic management. Woman at the microphone. Rail maze of the locomotive seen. Train on the station grounds. Track image side table. Control Center with modern train monitoring equipment. Recordings from the passing locomotive. Data vision. Woman in the train compartment. Women with children in the dining car. Train. Booking and printing of the driving card by computer. Customer receives information. The signal box in Braunschweig is experimenting with new solutions. Also computer be used on the yard. Freight yard. Coordinating body for electronic traffic control. Railway Museum. Screen.
02. New York: City Portrait DOM (zoom). Episcopal consecration with procession. View from relief window of Cathedral City. Horn player at the window of the Cathedral. Cityscape in an old engraving. Debris after the World War II. Original reconstructed 14th century City Hall. Hall of peace in the 1648 Westphalian Peace was signed. Painting of the historic event. Old houses. Shopping arcades. Pedestrian. Guild signs on houses. Market at the Cathedral. Modern University building. City at night. Local Tin jugs and plates on the wood-paneled walls. Man drinks beer. Sausages hanging Münsterländer on the ceiling. Man drinking grain. Glowing fire. Amateur dramatics group.
03. T.A. Edison and 100 years of phonograms classic car driving through the crowd. Thomas A. Edison gets out of the car. Edison opened a bridge for the traffic. Photos of old equipment to record and play back sounds. Edison's desk is opened. Patent Office archives. Dynamo. Light bulb, phonograms, Edison's clay roller, old phonograph. Man plays Enrico Caruso records. Photos of Caruso. Photos about jazz and dance musician. Modern production. Archive footage (WIF 96).
04. Netherlands: ice hockey youth mother helps small boys pulling the ice hockey equipment. Junior do various exercises. Exercises for body check and Forchecking. Various shots in the international match between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands. Dutch in the dark Jersey. Jagermeister advertising. Parents as a spectator.
Bundesbahn: Computer and technology camera: Rau, Jackson City Portrait of Münster camera: Jackson T. A. Edison centenary phonogram origin: Hungarian ice hockey junior origin: Polygoon at the beginning and end of total length
Everyone technology: computer rail modern face is also a symbol of progress behind the scenes. The traveler of today interested of course first and foremost for the proverbial properties of railway: sure - just in time - convenient. This is but more necessary than just an aerodynamic cosmetics.
The computer now long ago learned the language of the railroad. They help to control thousands of trains through the rail network confusing for lay today daily. Each train must be coordinated with many other trains en route. Ensures the new computer generation of the Bundesbahn: the cybernetic traffic control.
It starts in the signal box - like here on the Munich main train station. 300 points and 400 signals be moved from here. On the track image side table, the dispatcher controlled the work of its electronic counterparts.
Computer-aided train tracking is called the new control system. Put simply: each train will ride one day on a long electronic leash through the country. Train number and dates are stored in the on-board computer. You can be recalled from the new district control units. There, data vision make down - and site trains. Train number and departure from the schedule. Invisible but reliable watches the big electronic brother train and passengers.
Even before the trip, the car computer makes now useful. He helps at time of booking, print tickets and replaced the information officials on some stations. Computer - the railway also another word for service.
Since the electronics driving railway, also the signalling to faster tempo strives. On the signal box in Braunschweig, the engineers experiment with new solutions.
The computer has revolutionized the operation on marshalling yards and the transport of goods now. Earlier needed a freight train 5 days for the trip through the Federal Republic. Today 36 hours.
The electronic traffic control requires a new type of specialist. The Bundesbahn it educates in special courses - a chance for long-proven staff.
It was maybe a cozy. Today it applies to run dense traffic flows quickly and safely. The electronic eye makes it possible.
In tourism: May in Münster destinations - city tours: for example to Münster, where the world - as enlightened Scoffer mean - is still in order. The city occurred in the year 805 in the history as the seat of a bishop. Today, it is the capital of Westphalia - a history-saturated, rich in architectural monuments, urban communities, whose unobtrusive charming opens the visitors only on second glance. Once seemed Münster at the end. In the 2. World War it sank into rubble and ash, but the Münster their city rebuilt true to the original - the Town Hall from 1335 and many other monuments. The off-site facility of the peace Hall was rebuilt completely. Here the 30 years war was ended in 1648 with the signing of the peace of Westphalia. Münster is one of 260,000 residents. Nearly two-thirds of the workforce are officials and employees - a consequence of the tasks and functions that are grown to Münster: administrative capital, cultural but also economic Center for the surrounding area, where 1.2 million people live. As the city makes its University by headlines about talk. Perhaps, because here is studying before demonstrating, in the University with 27,000 students is the second largest of the Federal Republic. Even a night life has Münster, if one, on the environment and landscape seems excellent have grown. Where deliberate, Westphalia and cautious Catholics have the say, has a St. Pauli on Westphalian no chance. Hearty down-to-Earth is needed here, Münsterländer sausages and ham, the Münsterländer Doppelkorn. German province - in the best sense of the word. She has more to offer than think their Denigrators. Kim diet and an unswerving sense of the essence. For the upsets of our time, the Münster have left only a legal toast.
In review: 100 years record he is regarded as the most successful inventors of the world: Thomas Edison. in 1931, a few months before his death he entered a world celebrity, which is everyone like adorned for the last time in public - and unless during the commissioning of a bridge. Lift other inventions the Veit owes him the recording and playing back sound. After his death it sought in his desk in vain for other records: dar great inventor had completely spent, more than a thousand patents are archived in the American Patentfernt - including the invention of the Dynamo, the bulb - and the phonogram, whose 100th Jubiläum celebrates the world these days.
The German Emile Berliner took the step of the Edisonschen clay roller to the record. He recorded the sound vibrations initially on a soot-blackened glass *, with a membrane needle, which engraved a the sound spiral in the soot. Later, he chose to wax and it took off a matrix with as many records could be pressed. 1902 was the music of the classic with a recording by Enrico Caruso records premiere jazz and dance music followed. Music began its triumphal March around the world sound canned.
The invention of Edison and Berliner founded an industry with billion revenues. The 100th anniversary of the phonogram fall together with the victory of the cassette: in this year has the audio cassette for the first time the black disc surpassed.
In sports: ice hockey little league mothers apply with hand to roast - and protect their offspring for the battle on the ice. The fascination of ice hockey has gathered in the meantime also the youngest alone in the Netherlands there are 7 children teams that play regularly against each other.
A Czechoslovakia trained the team of Utrecht. If already because, said the Club and requires a trainer to the land of the ice hockey World Championship. Who trims the little ones like the large, teaching them the necessary tricks in dealing with clubs, Puck, and opponents.
Where to next generation of docile until the man and then the puck evident. Squeeze the natural pugnacity from 6 to 10 years in rules: it has the sporting also have its educational value. The international encounters most stoke the sporting ambition, like this game between the Utrecht junior team and a team of students at the Duisburg.
A begeisterungsfähigeres audience than the parents can barely imagine. And like too many people as milk teeth-rocker have listed is: nobody wants to give up a good finish in the style of the great.
