Brilliant piece of work. It should have been required reading in every school. The works of David Macaulay are also great for Jr. high students.
required reading in every school
I got the whole series from Netflix and regularly lend my copies to engineers and technicians. They are flabbergasted at the amount of knowledge they glean from the programs.
Of particular interest is one episode where he shows a GPS array which is as large as a NASA Mission Control system.
Now, we have them in our cell phones, in the palm of our hand.
Amazing how far we have come.