Modern Marvels
A survey of torture devices employed throughout history, ranging from the ancient Greeks' Brazen Bull to the Spanish Inquisition's elaborate mechanisms.
2026-06-18 12:59:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-18 13:52:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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Modern Marvels
A survey of torture devices employed throughout history, ranging from the ancient Greeks' Brazen Bull to the Spanish Inquisition's elaborate mechanisms.
2026-06-18 12:59:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-18 13:52:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
More than two million people die in the U.S. annually, creating 5,500 daily burials with 80 percent choosing caskets and 20 percent cremation explore dealing with death throughout centuries and today's $20-billion funeral industry.
2026-06-18 12:06:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-18 12:59:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
From Sherlock Holmes' examination of the physical evidence at a crime scene to today's DNA technology, a review of the history of crime detection through the use of forensic science.
2026-06-18 11:11:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-18 12:06:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
Modern Marvels
Emergency room medicine has only been a recognized specialty since 1989 episode examines advances that led to the modern emergency room - from the Byzantine's establishment of the first hospitals around 1050 A.D. to today's telemedicine.
2026-06-18 10:16:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-18 11:11:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
Modern Marvels
Examine tragedies including 1999 Milwaukee ironworkers' 200-foot fall, China's Sunjiwan coal mine explosion, fluoroscope x-ray radiation exposure in shoe stores, California's Salton Sea drainage issues, and Soviet Aral Sea irrigation disaster.
2026-06-18 09:23:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-18 10:16:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Since the turn of the 20th century, designers have competed to build them faster, taller, and steeper as technology pushes the envelope with flips, weightlessness, and more g-force than a jet, they have to calculate how much can the human body take.
2026-06-18 08:27:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-18 09:23:00 +0000 UTC(56m)
Modern Marvels
A 2000 Ford Taurus gets dissected to demonstrate the evolution of the automobile's major systems automotive historians and experts describe how cars have evolved and explain major advances.
2026-06-18 06:38:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-18 08:27:00 +0000 UTC(1h49m)
Modern Marvels
Get behind the wheel and take control of some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet these aren't the average vehicles and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else.
2026-06-18 00:35:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-18 01:26:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Explore the world of extreme horsepower from the fastest accelerating cars to massive hydroplane racing boats discover horsepower's steam engine marketing origins, container ship diesel power, Hoover Dam water harnessing, and more.
2026-06-17 23:42:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-18 00:35:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Gas--it makes a balloon go up, cooks our food, and fills our lungs this invisible state of matter does far more, and has a very visible impact on the world.
2026-06-17 22:50:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 23:42:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Beans converting soybeans into vegetable oils, flour and soy meal Nebraska's Kelley Bean Co. cleans 80,000 pounds of dry beans daily New England baked beans made by B&M Italian chef Cesare Casella uses heirloom beans hummus.
2026-06-17 21:58:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 22:50:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper we'll see the 21st Century's cutting-edge "green" technologies in action.
2026-06-17 21:09:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 21:58:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
Modern Marvels
Renewable energy technologies fight petroleum dependence and global warming by transforming air, water, earth, and fire into clean sources explore solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, and tidal power from experimental to massive scale solutions.
2026-06-17 20:17:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 21:09:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
The world's best extreme athletes, designers, manufacturers, and engineers explain and demonstrate why the gadgets, gear, and technology of these sports have captured the public's imagination and revolutionized the sporting industry.
2026-06-17 19:26:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 20:17:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Rising from a stretch of desert with nothing but remoteness to recommend it, Las Vegas became a glittering wonderland for dreamers a look at the forces that made Las Vegas a place unlike any on earth.
2026-06-17 18:35:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 19:26:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Get behind the wheel and take control of some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet these aren't the average vehicles and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else.
2026-06-17 12:35:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 13:26:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Explore the world of extreme horsepower from the fastest accelerating cars to massive hydroplane racing boats discover horsepower's steam engine marketing origins, container ship diesel power, Hoover Dam water harnessing, and more.
2026-06-17 11:42:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 12:35:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Gas--it makes a balloon go up, cooks our food, and fills our lungs this invisible state of matter does far more, and has a very visible impact on the world.
2026-06-17 10:50:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 11:42:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Beans converting soybeans into vegetable oils, flour and soy meal Nebraska's Kelley Bean Co. cleans 80,000 pounds of dry beans daily New England baked beans made by B&M Italian chef Cesare Casella uses heirloom beans hummus.
2026-06-17 09:58:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 10:50:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper we'll see the 21st Century's cutting-edge "green" technologies in action.
2026-06-17 09:09:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-17 09:58:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
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