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Former Tomcat pilot Terry Deitz explores F-14 fighter jet legacy through final catapult launches aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt; aviators and sailors reflect on iconic aircraft's career before retirement at Naval Air Station Oceana farewell ceremony.
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Two ribbons of concrete span the largest inland body of water in Louisiana, forming the world's longest automobile bridge.
Modern Marvels
To see how people, products, and more move around America, Adam Richman explores how a legendary long-hauler meticulously custom-builds each truck at Daimler.
Modern Marvels
Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations; covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.
Modern Marvels
A jet truck that can travel 300 mph; the Baltimore Technical Assistance Response Unit's mobile command truck; a garbage truck with an articulated arm; how SWAT, bomb squad, HAZMAT, and crime scene specialty trucks are built.
Modern Marvels
Precision-guided weapons become a flashpoint for war critics.
Modern Marvels
Airport runways play a vital role as the backbone of aviation.
Modern Marvels
Delves into the little-known, hugely important, multi-billion-dollar industry of product testing, where wrinkles get ironed out and goods are stripped of marketing and hype to see if they work; meet product testers who serve as truth squads.
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Modern Marvels by HISTORY
Modern Marvels
It was a science first conjured amid the fiery ovens of ancient blacksmiths; today more than 50% of all U.S. products require some form of welding.
Modern Marvels
Hundreds of years before steel and plastic, wood was the building block of America; from the historical, to the modern, to the timeless, episode explores the surprising ways people cannot live without wood.
Modern Marvels
Qatar represents everything a modern military command post; it can be with the most sophisticated military information systems--from video-conferencing to real-time frontline satellite communication.
Modern Marvels
Electrical linemen repair 345,000-volt power lines from helicopters as part of America's nearly two-century hardwiring story; fiber optic cables transmitting light since the late 1970s remain vital infrastructure alongside wireless technology.
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From banishing waste to battling B-O, the modern bathroom is full of wonders, all devoted to keeping us clean.
Modern Marvels
Who could imagine life without our "man-made weather"? On cold winter nights and hot summer days, we are forever grateful to the visionaries who took two basic elements--fire and ice--and turned them into true modern marvels.
Modern Marvels
Ice traps a treasure of energy on the ocean floor and confounds scientists still trying to solve why it's so slippery.
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Modern Marvels
Snow forms through nucleation in storm clouds but faces pollution threats; explore Storm Peak Laboratory cloud research, Colorado ski resort snowmaking technology, avalanche rescue innovations, and Buffalo blizzard forecasting.
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Modern Marvels
Towering skyscrapers buzzing with life, intricate tunnels connecting entire communities, mighty dams that tame the wildest rivers--this is construction animal style.
Modern Marvels
Earth's non-human inhabitants use tools, build structures, create traps, and farm; Egyptian vultures crack ostrich eggs with stones, chimpanzees extract termites with tool kits, prairie dogs dig subterranean homes, and ants raise aphid herds.
Modern Marvels
Water exists in three forms at same temperature as nature's powerful landscape carver and life supporter; explore its multidimensional character from bottled water industry to nuclear reactors, irrigation systems, and artistic fountain displays.
Modern Marvels
Tea ranks as world's second most popular drink with ancient origins; explore Lipton's Suffolk plant producing teabags, Charleston Plantation's cultivation, Boston Tea Party history, Clipper Ships bringing Chinese tea, and modern herbal varieties.
Modern Marvels
A study of the discoveries, inventions and technological advances that have helped us understand and predict weather; from observations made by early humans, to Doppler radar and satellite imaging, we'll see how man has tried to harness weather.
Modern Marvels
Vacuums aren't just for cleaning floors; there are giant vacuums that clean up after disasters like Hurricane Katrina and underwater vacuums that save coral reefs by suctioning up invasive algae.
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