The minds of the off-kilter geniuses who thought up off-the-mark concepts some tinkerers' musings were merely ahead of their time and deemed flops during the inventor's lifetime, but others were just plain bad.
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To see how people, products, and more move around America, Adam Richman explores how a legendary long-hauler meticulously custom-builds each truck at Daimler.
Spinning your wheels isn't just going around in circles, in fact, it's revolutionary - literally the history of civilization has turned on the wheel, and we have traveled as far as we have because of it.
The story of tuna, the most popular fish in the American diet fishing and canning operations a single tuna can net as much as $100,000 in the world's largest fish market in Tokyo efforts to save the giant bluefin tuna from overfishing.
Nuts range from pea-sized to bowling ball-sized as nutritional staples since time began sustained Roman and Chinese armies, English and Spanish navies, American tribes, while today UNICEF uses peanut products to reverse child malnutrition quickly.
From ancient solutions to the development of modern water and sewer services, plumbing helped to make civilization possible.
Excavators machines lug NASA rockets to the launch pad cruise ship machine to create a fusion reaction.
From giant machine presses stamping car bodies to 125-ton chainsaws cutting hardest rock, huge telescopes glimpsing universe ends to world's largest rock crushers explore massive machines including Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
The minds of the off-kilter geniuses who thought up off-the-mark concepts some tinkerers' musings were merely ahead of their time and deemed flops during the inventor's lifetime, but others were just plain bad.
To see how people, products, and more move around America, Adam Richman explores how a legendary long-hauler meticulously custom-builds each truck at Daimler.
Spinning your wheels isn't just going around in circles, in fact, it's revolutionary - literally the history of civilization has turned on the wheel, and we have traveled as far as we have because of it.
The story of tuna, the most popular fish in the American diet fishing and canning operations a single tuna can net as much as $100,000 in the world's largest fish market in Tokyo efforts to save the giant bluefin tuna from overfishing.
Nuts range from pea-sized to bowling ball-sized as nutritional staples since time began sustained Roman and Chinese armies, English and Spanish navies, American tribes, while today UNICEF uses peanut products to reverse child malnutrition quickly.
From ancient solutions to the development of modern water and sewer services, plumbing helped to make civilization possible.
Excavators machines lug NASA rockets to the launch pad cruise ship machine to create a fusion reaction.
From giant machine presses stamping car bodies to 125-ton chainsaws cutting hardest rock, huge telescopes glimpsing universe ends to world's largest rock crushers explore massive machines including Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
The minds of the off-kilter geniuses who thought up off-the-mark concepts some tinkerers' musings were merely ahead of their time and deemed flops during the inventor's lifetime, but others were just plain bad.
Traces the history and evolution of the world's most important fossil fuel without gasoline, modern life would grind to a halt.
Extreme firefighting techniques must be used to quell blazes from oil wells, war, forest fires and airplanes.
Close to 40% of Earth is classified as desert, but these environments offer hope through Middle East desalination, Las Vegas communities, Hoover Dam power, irrigation agriculture, solar energy, and technology enabling future Mars colonization.
Combat training throughout history, reviewing survival skills and psychological tools from ancient Rome to World Wars One and Two, and how modern training is enhanced by advanced technology and computer simulation.
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