Modern Marvels
At the height of the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command controls thousands of nuclear weapons, planes and missiles.
2026-06-07 10:52:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 11:42:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
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Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-08 12:36:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 13:25:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-08 11:44:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 12:36:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Technologies of the 1990s: the information superhighway DVDs TiVo GPS Google Amazon distribution center virtual pets George Foreman's grill.
2026-06-08 10:52:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 11:44:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-08 10:02:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 10:52:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Infantry soldiers known as "Tunnel Rats" searched for and destroyed secret subterranean enemy networks in Vietnam armed with flashlights and pistols, these volunteers faced lethal odds and uncovered arms caches, with many casualties.
2026-06-08 09:09:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 10:02:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Thousands of tons of dirt transform a stadium into a Supercross course in Las Vegas special mud helps pros grip baseballs mud wrestling in Hawaii adobe and rammed-earth homes potting soil facility in California.
2026-06-08 08:18:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 09:09:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Dynamite explodes hills, drills divide stone walls, and giant cranes pull 400,000-pound blocks from quarry pits rock serves as civilization's raw material for roads, buildings, paint, glue, makeup, antacids, and chewing gum.
2026-06-08 07:26:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 08:18:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Americans visit car washes two million times per day at an annual cost of $25 billion how car washes are built to clean, ranging from tunnel systems to in-bay automatics visiting the biggest car wash facility in the United States.
2026-06-08 06:34:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 07:26:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
A machine that converts energy into mechanical force to go over, under or through fortified or fixed defenses too strong for conventional force engines range from man's first long-range missile weapon.
2026-06-08 00:33:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 01:24:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-07 23:42:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 00:33:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
At the height of the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command controls thousands of nuclear weapons, planes and missiles.
2026-06-07 22:52:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 23:42:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
What does it take to rate as "the world's strongest"? Watch as life-saving boron carbide body armor, strong enough to stop 9mm machine gun bullets at point-blank range, is put to the test.
2026-06-07 22:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 22:52:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
The versatile and nutritious potato the potato's mysterious origins in South America's Andes potato knishes in New York City farming exotic potatoes in Maine large-scale potato production in Iowa and Pennsylvania.
2026-06-07 21:11:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 22:00:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
Modern Marvels
Profile five deadly weapons focusing on inventors, battles, and technology: Tsar Bomba 50-megaton nuclear bomb, WWI machine guns, WWII incendiary bombs, proximity fuses for artillery detonation, and VX nerve gas chemical agent.
2026-06-07 20:18:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 21:11:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Explore the world of monster trucks, mechanical beasts weighing 10,000 pounds that entertain audiences with raw power go behind the scenes to meet the drivers who race these mammoth vehicles in spectacular competitions.
2026-06-07 19:25:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 20:18:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Hazardous-material shipment trucks carrying classified government materials Con-Air flight moves dangerous felons.
2026-06-07 18:32:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 19:25:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
A machine that converts energy into mechanical force to go over, under or through fortified or fixed defenses too strong for conventional force engines range from man's first long-range missile weapon.
2026-06-07 12:33:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 13:24:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-07 11:42:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 12:33:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
At the height of the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command controls thousands of nuclear weapons, planes and missiles.
2026-06-07 10:52:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 11:42:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
What does it take to rate as "the world's strongest"? Watch as life-saving boron carbide body armor, strong enough to stop 9mm machine gun bullets at point-blank range, is put to the test.
2026-06-07 10:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 10:52:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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