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The Last Artifact (2020)

ALL 01/01/2020 (en) Documentary 60 Min
  • Release
    01/01/2020
  • Production
    KUSM-TV, Montana PBS
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  • Original title
    The Last Artifact
  • Original language
    en
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Overview

Just outside Paris, France, inside a high-tech vault, requiring three independently controlled keys, rests a small metallic cylinder about the diameter of a golf ball. Encased within three vacuum-sealed bell jars it may not look like much, but it is one of the most important objects on the planet. It affects nearly every aspect of our lives from the moment we are born, to the food we eat, the cars we drive, and even the medicines we take. The Last Artifact follows the high-stakes race to redefine the weight of the world reveals the untold story of one of the most important objects on the planet. The kilogram, the base unit of mass in the International System of Units, helped send humans to the moon and satellites into space. This small hunk of metal is the object against which all others are measured. Yet over time, its mass mysteriously eroded by the weight of an eyelash. A change that, unbeknownst to most, unleashed a crisis with potentially dire consequences.

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  1. Miriam Margolyes

    Narrator (UK version)

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The Last Artifact (2020) 60 Min

ALL 01/01/2020 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 01/01/2020
  • Production
    KUSM-TV, Montana PBS
  • Original title The Last Artifact
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Just outside Paris, France, inside a high-tech vault, requiring three independently controlled keys, rests a small metallic cylinder about the diameter of a golf ball. Encased within three vacuum-sealed bell jars it may not look like much, but it is one of the most important objects on the planet. It affects nearly every aspect of our lives from the moment we are born, to the food we eat, the cars we drive, and even the medicines we take. The Last Artifact follows the high-stakes race to redefine the weight of the world reveals the untold story of one of the most important objects on the planet. The kilogram, the base unit of mass in the International System of Units, helped send humans to the moon and satellites into space. This small hunk of metal is the object against which all others are measured. Yet over time, its mass mysteriously eroded by the weight of an eyelash. A change that, unbeknownst to most, unleashed a crisis with potentially dire consequences.

  1. Jaime Jacobson, Ed Watkins

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Ed Watkins, Jaime Jacobson

    Producer



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