Modern Marvels
It's the unsung essential of modern life canning is the method of preserving and packaging food, without which civilization would never have ventured beyond the local food supply.
It's the unsung essential of modern life canning is the method of preserving and packaging food, without which civilization would never have ventured beyond the local food supply.
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Changing the way people think about coin-operated machines exploring the ways people spend their quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies every day.
Drilling spirals through ground, rock, earth, ice, steel, and stone explore water drilling in New Mexico desert, oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico, deepest hole quests, ice core climate recovery, tunnel boring machines, and laser precision drilling.
Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.
It's the unsung essential of modern life canning is the method of preserving and packaging food, without which civilization would never have ventured beyond the local food supply.
Making breakfast on the USS John C. Stennis.
The beverage coffee originates in Ethiopia more than 1,000 years ago.
The sugar industry developed through Caribbean slavery and British control desires sugar played critical roles in American independence while modern Hawaiian plantations process cane stalks into raw sugar, corn syrup, and various sweetener forms.
The history of soft drinks the production process at Dr. Pepper, the world's third-largest soft-drink supplier the Gatorade sports drink energy drinks the roots of ginger ale and root beer.
Changing the way people think about coin-operated machines exploring the ways people spend their quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies every day.
Drilling spirals through ground, rock, earth, ice, steel, and stone explore water drilling in New Mexico desert, oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico, deepest hole quests, ice core climate recovery, tunnel boring machines, and laser precision drilling.
Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.
It's the unsung essential of modern life canning is the method of preserving and packaging food, without which civilization would never have ventured beyond the local food supply.
Making breakfast on the USS John C. Stennis.
The beverage coffee originates in Ethiopia more than 1,000 years ago.
The sugar industry developed through Caribbean slavery and British control desires sugar played critical roles in American independence while modern Hawaiian plantations process cane stalks into raw sugar, corn syrup, and various sweetener forms.
The history of soft drinks the production process at Dr. Pepper, the world's third-largest soft-drink supplier the Gatorade sports drink energy drinks the roots of ginger ale and root beer.
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.
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