Modern Marvels
A toxic waste dump at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y. software flaws render Patriot Missiles inaccurate the collapse of 7 World Trade Center the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.
A toxic waste dump at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y. software flaws render Patriot Missiles inaccurate the collapse of 7 World Trade Center the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.
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Leonardo da Vinci remains intriguing 500 years after death beyond great artist, he was remarkable scientist and inventor whose notebooks contained incredible machines from weapons to submarines, robots, and analog computers with workable plans.
Big machines span NASA's world's biggest wind tunnel and flight simulator, Joy Mining's Continuous Miner underground machine, London Eye's 443-foot observation wheel, IMAX's largest film technology, and Claas Cougar world's biggest lawnmower.
Made up of soldiers and civilians, scientists and specialists in an enormous variety of fields, the US Army Corps of Engineers was created over 200 years ago by Congressional mandate to respond, in peace and war, to the nation's engineering needs.
Traces physical fitness' role in the health of the individual and society from ancient Greek gymnasiums, where pupils pumped up the mind as well as body, to 19th-century Muscular Christians, who saw exercise as an obligation to God.
Distillation of spirits represents art, science, and vapor-water marriage in a billion-dollar business visit brandy, liqueur, moonshine, and absinthe distilleries including Christian Brothers, Deep South moonshine, and French Courvoisier Cognac.
Termites, mosquitos, rats, mice, ants and cockroaches have spread damage, disease and death for millions of years.
How wheat feeds the world wheat becomes everything from bread to beer a custom harvester follows ripening wheat fields from Texas to North Dakota exporting wheat grinding grain into flour Widmer Brothers Brewery Wheatware.
Mega stores are giant facilities engineered to keep up with America's supersized habits they are the largest, busiest places in the country their greatest challenge: keeping up with demand on a massive scale.
Giant robots work factory floors and outer space floating fortresses house 6,000 military personnel with length matching Empire State Building's height diesel engines produce 108,000 horsepower in audacious engineering feats worldwide.
The Massachusetts Central Artery/Tunnel Project, a.k.a. The Big Dig, is an impressive municipal construction project in U.S. its objective to replace Boston's decaying highway infrastructure with 160 new highway miles.
A toxic waste dump at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y. software flaws render Patriot Missiles inaccurate the collapse of 7 World Trade Center the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.
It's the place where one man's trash is truly another man's treasure enter the mysterious world of the junkyard, where many pieces actually do add up to a whole uncover how junkyard operators create order out of seemingly random piles of junk.
In less than a century, the world went from dirt tracks to highways, from propeller planes to space travel, from sailboats to supertankers in the process, a glut of traffic was created on roadways, railways, airways, and seaways.
Freight trains transport 1.8 billion tons annually as America's economic lifeblood, carrying crops, electronics, cars, chemicals, and coal explore Union Pacific's Bailey yard, the world's greatest freight system, from mining tramway origins.
Through rain, snow, heat, or gloom of night, we expect postmen to deliver the mail the U.S. Post Office handles over 603-million pieces of mail daily yet it represents only 43% of the world's total mail volume.
Food trucks are hitting the big time across much of America, they're changing the way people eat from humble beginnings as chuck wagons and hot dog carts, they've taken off as ethnic eateries, gourmet specialists, and even high-tech mega trucks.
Giant robots work factory floors and outer space floating fortresses house 6,000 military personnel with length matching Empire State Building's height diesel engines produce 108,000 horsepower in audacious engineering feats worldwide.
The Massachusetts Central Artery/Tunnel Project, a.k.a. The Big Dig, is an impressive municipal construction project in U.S. its objective to replace Boston's decaying highway infrastructure with 160 new highway miles.
A toxic waste dump at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y. software flaws render Patriot Missiles inaccurate the collapse of 7 World Trade Center the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.
It's the place where one man's trash is truly another man's treasure enter the mysterious world of the junkyard, where many pieces actually do add up to a whole uncover how junkyard operators create order out of seemingly random piles of junk.
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