Modern Marvels
A look at the ingenious and outrageous men who risked a lot for "black gold" and wealth.
2025-12-31 08:27:27 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 09:18:33 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Modern Marvels
New technologies such as carbon sequestration and bioremediation combat environmental crises.
2025-12-31 15:19:17 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 16:08:50 +0000 UTC(49m)
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George Washington Carver invented 300 peanut uses and developed crop rotation at Tuskegee Institute.
2025-12-31 14:28:31 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 15:19:17 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
California's date palm trees; Wisconsin cranberry marshes; Pennsylvania's mushroom farms.
2025-12-31 13:36:40 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 14:28:31 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Hunting technology evolves from the primitive to the digital.
2025-12-31 12:44:41 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 13:36:40 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Explore american harvest methods; orchard management, fruit packing, corn fields, and more.
2025-12-31 11:54:54 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 12:44:41 +0000 UTC(49m)
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Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking-, there's a custom machine to harvest it.
2025-12-31 11:02:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 11:54:54 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Dredgers, mechanical beasts, clear ports and trace back to ancient Egypt.
2025-12-31 10:09:29 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 11:02:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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The secrets of oil and the many products it has spawned; oil refinery.
2025-12-31 09:18:33 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 10:09:29 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
A look at the ingenious and outrageous men who risked a lot for "black gold" and wealth.
2025-12-31 08:27:27 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 09:18:33 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Traces the history and evolution of the world's most important fossil fuel; without gasoline.
2025-12-31 07:35:04 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 08:27:27 +0000 UTC(52m)
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A look at the many uses of acid; explosives; a sulfuric acid plant; vinegar.
2025-12-31 06:43:48 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 07:35:04 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Heavy metals like copper, uranium, and zinc are stored in National Defense Stockpile for America.
2025-12-31 05:51:13 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 06:43:48 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Metal has helped shape human progress since man first thrust copper into a fire and forged a tool.
2025-12-31 05:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 05:51:13 +0000 UTC(51m)
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All life-forms and modern technology are built on a foundation of carbon.
2025-12-31 04:08:55 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 05:00:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Mankind makes use of lead, a versatile but toxic metal, for 6,000 years.
2025-12-31 03:17:36 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 04:08:55 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Copper conducts electricity, forms plumbing, creates roofs, and more as versatile metal.
2025-12-31 02:26:10 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 03:17:36 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Chrome hot rod; the Chrome Shop Mafia adds bling to truckers' big rigs; Arlington Plating Co.
2025-12-31 01:35:01 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 02:26:10 +0000 UTC(51m)
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A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made; making aluminum foil.
2025-12-31 00:43:46 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 01:35:01 +0000 UTC(51m)
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How iron mined in Minnesota is made into steel; iron weapons revolutionize warfare.
2025-12-30 23:52:22 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 00:43:46 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Geological history from the Stone Age to the Space Age; the moon.
2025-12-30 23:00:59 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 23:52:22 +0000 UTC(51m)
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