ms. epstein: thank you. i appreciate it. >> you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation goes on on facebook.ike us we are in redding, california . come with us as we learn more about the shasta dam and its history. >>

ms. epstein: torpedos i came to it by accident. i didn't wake up and think i really need to learn more about this. i backed into it, although i was fairly spectacular by the standards. i was flailing around for a dissertation topic, had these meaning of life questions, and someone said what about torpedoes. i have not done that seen any work on them. shockingly, they were right. that became my topic, and then my interest -- i stumbled across the intellectual property dimensions. torpedoes for these usually complex weapon systems, which i did not know when i started. they really were i think at one of the first weapons systems to drive this new procurement relationship between the government and private sector in both the united states and great britain. and so, when i realized both nations were running into variations on the same intellectual property problems, that really piqued my interest. especially since both the united states and great britain see themselves as incredibly liberal, but both governments seemed to be behaving il

ms. epstein: i look at how the u.s. government tried to work with the defense contracting sector to acquire modern industrial weaponry, and the government's desire to gain technology on the cheap or for nothing came into conflict with the intellectual property interests or rights of the private sector. i am concerned how the legal issues got resolved and how they interpreted to the emergency of interested federal government. >> you also look at the origins

ms. epstein: thank you. i appreciate it. >> you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation goes on on facebook.ike us we are in redding, california . come with us as we learn more about the shasta dam and its history. tall, two02 feet thirds of a mile in length. it is actually thicker than it is tall. from here when we look up at it, we see just how massive shasta dam is. it weighs 16 million tons. today we are standing at shasta dam, the second largest dam and the entire united states. it was built back in 1948 and forever changed the state of california. the central valley runs right here all the way down 450 miles to bakersfield. valley, because historically we have had some wet years and a dry years, and aboutse wet years we get 75% of the state's precipitation . all of that rainfall and snow melt would wash down into the valley and cause flooding. so, the natives would live by the river and then go to higher ground during flood season. as the water re

at ahistory meeting in new orleans where we spoke with kate epstein about the relationship between the u.s. military and the private sector. ms