Modern Marvels
Since 200 BC, when the Greek Philosopher Archimedes created a device for lifting water, the pump has been synonymous with transporting Earth's most precious resource.
2026-06-06 12:30:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 13:21:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Modern Marvels
Since 200 BC, when the Greek Philosopher Archimedes created a device for lifting water, the pump has been synonymous with transporting Earth's most precious resource.
2026-06-06 12:30:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 13:21:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
A sharp look at the cutting-edge tool that changed history, including a bank of six circular saws spinning at 1,750 RPM to a diamond-coated belt saw that can slice through limestone like butter.
2026-06-06 11:38:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 12:30:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Sink your teeth into the razor sharp world of saws cut across the centuries to discover how the Egyptians arduously sawed stone as compared to modern saws that slice through limestone like butter.
2026-06-06 10:48:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 11:38:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
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Dredgers clear and deepen ports for vessels that carry megacontainers.
2026-06-06 09:56:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 10:48:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Trace the butchering trade's evolution from corner butchers to industrial disassembly lines tour Chicago Stockyards remains where Sinclair, Birdseye, and refrigeration changed the industry, plus modern quality controls and rural custom butchers.
2026-06-06 09:03:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 09:56:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Dogs are fearless, faithful, determined, and swift, serving as hunters, soldiers, rescuers, and protectors they are perfectly engineered marvels, combining natural instincts with complex training.
2026-06-06 08:13:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 09:03:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Strange weapons of the past and present include Japanese ninja claws, microwavelike rays, lasers, robots, the "puke light," and a super slippery substance.
2026-06-06 07:22:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 08:13:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Adam Richman visits power tool manufacturing mecca DeWalt, where he discovers how they're using cutting-edge technology to make cutting-edge tools.
2026-06-06 06:30:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 07:22:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
The celebration of Halloween has become a $6 billion economic powerhouse the annual Halloween Haunt at Knott's Berry Farm the production of monster makeup, masks and costumes carving pumpkins making fake blood haunted house.
2026-06-06 00:35:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 01:26:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Pop open the hood, check out the carbs, and hear the engines roar as we journey back to a time when gas was cheap, emission controls non-existent, and all that mattered was acceleration and speed.
2026-06-05 23:45:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-06 00:35:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
America's aging infrastructure is in danger of collapse due to corrosion, according to engineers technology for battling corrosion harnessing the destructive power of decomposition.
2026-06-05 22:54:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-05 23:45:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Trapping black bears with West Virginia Division of Natural Resources biologists trapping and releasing feral cats left stranded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
2026-06-05 22:05:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-05 22:54:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
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An exploration of the Nazi construction called the Atlantic Wall - 3,000 miles of shore fortifications along occupied European coastline the episode highlights the logistics of construction, types of fortifications.
2026-06-05 21:12:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-05 22:05:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Considered by many to be the most astounding machine ever built, this reusable spaceship is the apex of flight technology the challenges and the critical issues that led to NASA's decision to create an "airplane" to navigate space.
2026-06-05 20:19:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-05 21:12:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
In 1973, a desperate America, starved by an OPEC embargo, began construction on an 800-mile lifeline for its oil hunger study the technological triumph of the Alaskan oil pipeline built over mountains and tundra, where temperatures drop below zero.
2026-06-05 19:25:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-05 20:19:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
Modern Marvels
The 1970s were a decade of excess dust off your mirror ball, put on your leisure suit, and rediscover the gadgets of the era Play PONG with its inventor and learn how this simple game created a billion dollar empire.
2026-06-05 18:33:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-05 19:25:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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