Modern Marvels
Tracing the history and predicting the future of the waterside construction sites: shipyards.
Tracing the history and predicting the future of the waterside construction sites: shipyards.
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Freight trains transport 1.8 billion tons annually through Union Pacific's Bailey yard system.
Dynamite blasts out the natural resources that have built our modern world.
California's date palm trees; Wisconsin cranberry marshes; Pennsylvania's mushroom farms.
Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking-, there's a custom machine to harvest it.
Mankind makes use of lead, a versatile but toxic metal, for 6,000 years.
Power-driven machines used to make metal parts help build the modern world.
Examines what happens when engineers get their calculations wrong.
A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made; making aluminum foil.
Koenigsegg CCR automobile; Shanghai Maglev train.
Maritime and engineering disasters: Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, Boeing crashes, nuclear meltdowns.
Engineering failures: sinkholes, landslides, airport collapse, plane crash, and ship sinking.
Hot and spicy items; Tabasco sauce made by McIlhenny Co. in Louisiana; McCormick spices.
Congressional mandate creates the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Giant, flame-breathing robots; floating fortress; diesel engine with 108,000 horsepower.
The hidden uses of grease inside giant machines; how grease is made in a New York factory.
The Hoover Dam is one of the seven engineering wonders of the modern world.
Vehicle assembly; building a home in a week; high-tech golf clubs; building demolition.
Mankind makes use of lead, a versatile but toxic metal, for 6,000 years.
Power-driven machines used to make metal parts help build the modern world.
Examines what happens when engineers get their calculations wrong.
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