What does it take to rate as "the world's strongest"? Watch as life-saving boron carbide body armor, strong enough to stop 9mm machine gun bullets at point-blank range, is put to the test.
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A countdown of the top gizmos and gadgets featured on "Modern Marvels," from golden oldies to newfangled thingamabobs, including an electronic doodad that was once considered a threat to national security.
Examine mysterious maritime tragedies including Edmund Fitzgerald's 1975 sinking, Boeing 737 rudder crashes in 1991 and 1994, secret 1959 government nuclear facility meltdown, 4-million gallon diesel storage tank failure, and more.
Technologies of the 1990s: the information superhighway DVDs TiVo GPS Google Amazon distribution center virtual pets George Foreman's grill.
In the world of surveillance, Big Brother is not only watching, he's also listening, analyzing, recording, scanning, and tracking every aspect of our lives with advanced surveillance technology, there's virtually no place to hide.
Infantry soldiers known as "Tunnel Rats" searched for and destroyed secret subterranean enemy networks in Vietnam armed with flashlights and pistols, these volunteers faced lethal odds and uncovered arms caches, with many casualties.
Thousands of tons of dirt transform a stadium into a Supercross course in Las Vegas special mud helps pros grip baseballs mud wrestling in Hawaii adobe and rammed-earth homes potting soil facility in California.
Dynamite explodes hills, drills divide stone walls, and giant cranes pull 400,000-pound blocks from quarry pits rock serves as civilization's raw material for roads, buildings, paint, glue, makeup, antacids, and chewing gum.
Americans visit car washes two million times per day at an annual cost of $25 billion how car washes are built to clean, ranging from tunnel systems to in-bay automatics visiting the biggest car wash facility in the United States.
A countdown of the top gizmos and gadgets featured on "Modern Marvels," from golden oldies to newfangled thingamabobs, including an electronic doodad that was once considered a threat to national security.
Examine mysterious maritime tragedies including Edmund Fitzgerald's 1975 sinking, Boeing 737 rudder crashes in 1991 and 1994, secret 1959 government nuclear facility meltdown, 4-million gallon diesel storage tank failure, and more.
Technologies of the 1990s: the information superhighway DVDs TiVo GPS Google Amazon distribution center virtual pets George Foreman's grill.
In the world of surveillance, Big Brother is not only watching, he's also listening, analyzing, recording, scanning, and tracking every aspect of our lives with advanced surveillance technology, there's virtually no place to hide.
Infantry soldiers known as "Tunnel Rats" searched for and destroyed secret subterranean enemy networks in Vietnam armed with flashlights and pistols, these volunteers faced lethal odds and uncovered arms caches, with many casualties.
Thousands of tons of dirt transform a stadium into a Supercross course in Las Vegas special mud helps pros grip baseballs mud wrestling in Hawaii adobe and rammed-earth homes potting soil facility in California.
Dynamite explodes hills, drills divide stone walls, and giant cranes pull 400,000-pound blocks from quarry pits rock serves as civilization's raw material for roads, buildings, paint, glue, makeup, antacids, and chewing gum.
Americans visit car washes two million times per day at an annual cost of $25 billion how car washes are built to clean, ranging from tunnel systems to in-bay automatics visiting the biggest car wash facility in the United States.
A machine that converts energy into mechanical force to go over, under or through fortified or fixed defenses too strong for conventional force engines range from man's first long-range missile weapon.
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At the height of the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command controls thousands of nuclear weapons, planes and missiles.
What does it take to rate as "the world's strongest"? Watch as life-saving boron carbide body armor, strong enough to stop 9mm machine gun bullets at point-blank range, is put to the test.
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