Modern Marvels
Changing the way people think about coin-operated machines exploring the ways people spend their quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies every day.
2026-06-09 12:34:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 13:25:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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San Francisco's Oakland Bay Bridge features a unique double suspension.
2026-06-10 12:53:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 13:47:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
Modern Marvels
Two ribbons of concrete span the largest inland body of water in Louisiana, forming the world's longest automobile bridge.
2026-06-10 11:59:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 12:53:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
Modern Marvels
The history of one of the world's most famous bridges, London's Tower Bridge when it was erected in 1892, it became a postcard image of London, but the famed gothic towers of this pioneering steel structure, sheathed in stone, are purely decorative.
2026-06-10 11:04:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 11:59:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
Modern Marvels
The story of the construction of America's national highway system, from its beginnings in 1912, which it was conceived by auto and headlight tycoons, to its completion in 1984, when the last stoplight was removed and buried.
2026-06-10 10:10:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 11:04:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
Modern Marvels
Earth's non-human inhabitants use tools, build structures, create traps, and farm Egyptian vultures crack ostrich eggs with stones, chimpanzees extract termites with tool kits, prairie dogs dig subterranean homes, and ants raise aphid herds.
2026-06-10 09:17:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 10:10:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Join us for a high-speed look at police pursuits in an adrenaline-filled hour focused on the history and evolution of the technologies that give law enforcement the upper hand when pursuing bad guys.
2026-06-10 08:23:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 09:17:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
Modern Marvels
The construction of a terrorist-proof safe room, and how windows might someday act as biological weapons detectors what technology can do to protect civilians, and how they can use technology to protect themselves.
2026-06-10 07:30:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 08:23:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Under the supervision of sculptor Gutzon Borglum, miners and quarrymen carve the faces of four U.S. presidents into the Black Hills of South Dakota, paying tribute to the first 150 years of American history.
2026-06-10 06:37:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 07:30:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Changing the way people think about coin-operated machines exploring the ways people spend their quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies every day.
2026-06-10 00:34:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 01:25:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-09 23:42:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 00:34:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-09 22:50:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 23:42:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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.
2026-06-09 21:59:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 22:50:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Favorite Foods USA
Making breakfast on the USS John C. Stennis.
2026-06-09 21:07:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 21:59:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Favorite Foods USA
The beverage coffee originates in Ethiopia more than 1,000 years ago.
2026-06-09 20:16:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 21:07:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-09 19:23:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 20:16:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-09 18:33:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 19:23:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Changing the way people think about coin-operated machines exploring the ways people spend their quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies every day.
2026-06-09 12:34:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 13:25:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-09 11:42:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 12:34:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-06-09 10:50:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 11:42:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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.
2026-06-09 09:59:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 10:50:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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