Around the world and across the eons, gold stands as a symbol of power, wealth, and love the story of the hunters of the precious metal and their methods for extracting it.
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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.
World-shaking crashes efforts to make auto racing safer the latest in motorcycle crash survival equipment a skydiver survives falling 11,000 feet without a parachute NASA's asteroid-tracking team colliding subatomic particles.
His movies are legend, his women beautiful, and his toys the best in the world James Bond is foiling villains in space-age flying machines or eavesdropping on his enemies with ultra-sophisticated spy gear.
More than 50 years after its construction, the Golden Gate remains one of the world's great engineering marvels. It took 25-million man-hours and 80,000 miles of cable to complete the cost in human life proved even greater.
Each flip of an electric-light switch attests to the genius of Nikola Tesla, creator of the alternating current (AC) system the Tesla coil energy-efficient bulbs.
Since 200 BC, when the Greek Philosopher Archimedes created a device for lifting water, the pump has been synonymous with transporting Earth's most precious resource.
The construction of the 51-mile canal that took ten years to build and employed over 40,000 workers, 6,000 of whom died of yellow fever, malaria, and other horrors an earlier, nine-year attempt by the French ended in failure and cost 20,000 lives.
Around the world and across the eons, gold stands as a symbol of power, wealth, and love the story of the hunters of the precious metal and their methods for extracting it.
A look at the many uses of acid the military harnesses acid to make explosives at a sulfuric acid plant, acid takes the stain out of stainless steel and dissolves precious metals the Heinz vinegar plant acid-loving bacteria.
Working out with iron mining, extracting and forging this incredibly versatile metal ultra-strong magnets enhanced weapon technology Martian mining.
When the men and women aboard a modern submarine hear the command to dive, they can take a measure of comfort in the fact that no US sub has been lost in nearly 40 years, though it's been said that the sea is a more hostile environment than space.
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.
Legendary drivers lead us on a record-breaking race through a century-long search for sheer acceleration that began before World War One, when hot-rodders modified Model-T Fords to see how fast they could go.
From the first well in Pennsylvania to the gushing Spindletop and modern supertankers, the story of oil is the story of civilization as we know it a look at the ingenious and outrageous men who risked a lot for "black gold" and unimaginable wealth.
Examining how frequently experts in various disciplines can hit their targets, including archers, sharpshooters and even a billiards player the ancient world's ballista and trebuchet weapons knife thrower Cirque du Soleil's daring artists.
Strap on a parachute and soar through the saga of jet propulsion which radically transformed the world since inception of World War II.
A look at the many uses of acid the military harnesses acid to make explosives at a sulfuric acid plant, acid takes the stain out of stainless steel and dissolves precious metals the Heinz vinegar plant acid-loving bacteria.
Working out with iron mining, extracting and forging this incredibly versatile metal ultra-strong magnets enhanced weapon technology Martian mining.
When the men and women aboard a modern submarine hear the command to dive, they can take a measure of comfort in the fact that no US sub has been lost in nearly 40 years, though it's been said that the sea is a more hostile environment than space.
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.
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