A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made aluminum is used to make reflective mirrors for telescopes at NASA the process of making aluminum foil why aluminum baseball bats are better than wood.
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Examines what happens when engineers get their calculations wrong.
A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made aluminum is used to make reflective mirrors for telescopes at NASA the process of making aluminum foil why aluminum baseball bats are better than wood.
The Koenigsegg CCR automobile the Shanghai Maglev train motorboat racer Ken Warby and the Spirit of Australia the Kingda Ka roller coaster the Holloman High Speed Test Track.
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.
Complex engineering failures include Sun Valley's 200-foot sinkhole, Laguna Beach landslide destroying 11 homes, Charles de Gaulle Terminal 2E roof collapse killing four, Fokker F-10 crash with Knute Rockne, and Marine Electric sinking disasters.
Hot and spicy items Tabasco sauce made by McIlhenny Co. in Louisiana McCormick & Co. spices from Baltimore chili cook-off capsaicin gives peppers tongue-burning heat Michael Jordan's SolToro Tequila Grill in Connecticut.
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.
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 sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald the Buffalo Creek Dam disaster the explosion of a supertanker in Los Angeles Harbor.
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.
Tropicana Casino Garage collapse Transvaal Aqua Park roof collapse gas-storage explosion Bhopal chemical plant disaster.
DVD, CD, PDA, HDTV, PVR--used to be the ultimate in "gotta have it" gadgets and gizmos and "to die for" technology that populate a digital world of acronyms.
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.
The Allies devise scientific and mechanical breakthroughs to thwart Hitler's Atlantic Wall and to make the D-Day invasion successful.
The Wilson Sporting Goods football factory Rawlings' Costa Rica baseball factory the National Soccer Hall of Fame the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The intense competition, the romance, the success and disappointment that led to the miracle of long distance communication.
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald the Buffalo Creek Dam disaster the explosion of a supertanker in Los Angeles Harbor.
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.
Tropicana Casino Garage collapse Transvaal Aqua Park roof collapse gas-storage explosion Bhopal chemical plant disaster.
DVD, CD, PDA, HDTV, PVR--used to be the ultimate in "gotta have it" gadgets and gizmos and "to die for" technology that populate a digital world of acronyms.
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