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Tropicana Casino Garage collapse Transvaal Aqua Park roof collapse gas-storage explosion Bhopal chemical plant disaster.
2026-07-16 23:05:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-16 23:59:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
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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.
2026-07-18 12:54:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-18 13:46:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Cannons evolved from 13th-century fort-penetrating weapons to atomic bomb launchers with smart weapons explore how cannons were cast and forged, terrorized in world wars, and advanced to today's 40-ton self-propelled Crusader.
2026-07-18 12:01:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-18 12:54:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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With technological advances, our ancient struggle against the sea has turned into a luxurious holiday a peek at the elegant life on these floating resorts.
2026-07-18 11:06:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-18 12:01:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
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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.
2026-07-18 10:13:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-18 11:06:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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For over a century, the U.S. steel industry is a powerful symbol of the nation's industrial might steel transforms a country of farmers and merchants into a nation of builders, then U.S. domination of the market meets new challenges in the 1970s.
2026-07-18 09:19:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-18 10:13:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
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Salt is a versatile substance with 14,000 known uses visiting a salt mine under Lake Erie an evaporation facility harvests ocean salt near San Francisco a Florida restaurant offers 40 varieties of salt.
2026-07-18 08:27:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-18 09:19:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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The U.S. Navy's most lethal fighter, the F-14, soars at supersonic speeds.
2026-07-18 07:34:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-18 08:27:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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Freight trains transport 1.8 billion tons annually as America's economic lifeblood, carrying crops, electronics, cars, chemicals, and coal explore Union Pacific's Bailey yard, the world's greatest freight system, from mining tramway origins.
2026-07-18 06:41:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-18 07:34:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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Examines what happens when engineers get their calculations wrong.
2026-07-18 00:33:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-18 02:16:00 +0000 UTC(1h43m)
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A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made aluminum is used to make reflective mirrors for telescopes at NASA the process of making aluminum foil why aluminum baseball bats are better than wood.
2026-07-17 23:42:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-18 00:33:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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The Koenigsegg CCR automobile the Shanghai Maglev train motorboat racer Ken Warby and the Spirit of Australia the Kingda Ka roller coaster the Holloman High Speed Test Track.
2026-07-17 22:50:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-17 23:42:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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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.
2026-07-17 21:58:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-17 22:50:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Complex engineering failures include Sun Valley's 200-foot sinkhole, Laguna Beach landslide destroying 11 homes, Charles de Gaulle Terminal 2E roof collapse killing four, Fokker F-10 crash with Knute Rockne, and Marine Electric sinking disasters.
2026-07-17 21:06:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-17 21:58:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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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.
2026-07-17 20:14:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-17 21:06:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Made up of soldiers and civilians, scientists and specialists in an enormous variety of fields, the US Army Corps of Engineers was created over 200 years ago by Congressional mandate to respond, in peace and war, to the nation's engineering needs.
2026-07-17 19:21:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-17 20:14:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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Giant robots work factory floors and outer space floating fortresses house 6,000 military personnel with length matching Empire State Building's height diesel engines produce 108,000 horsepower in audacious engineering feats worldwide.
2026-07-17 18:29:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-17 19:21:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Examines what happens when engineers get their calculations wrong.
2026-07-17 12:33:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-17 14:16:00 +0000 UTC(1h43m)
Modern Marvels
A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made aluminum is used to make reflective mirrors for telescopes at NASA the process of making aluminum foil why aluminum baseball bats are better than wood.
2026-07-17 11:42:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-17 12:33:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
The Koenigsegg CCR automobile the Shanghai Maglev train motorboat racer Ken Warby and the Spirit of Australia the Kingda Ka roller coaster the Holloman High Speed Test Track.
2026-07-17 10:50:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-17 11:42:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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.
2026-07-17 09:58:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-17 10:50:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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