Adam Richman visits a central Pennsylvanian cheese maker with an award-winning mozzarella inside grocery giant Kroger as they slice, shred and package over 2.5-million lbs. of cheese per week.
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How padlocks and combination locks are made biometric locks cracking open a bank vault how the government plans to keep people away from a nuclear waste site for the next 10,000 years.
Explore basements from Pompeii to Pittsburgh ancient Hittites, Phrygians, and Persians carved subterranean rooms for storage and shelter, Greeks and Romans valued them, Renaissance architects hid kitchens there, and Colonial Americans expanded use.
We examine more threats--both natural and manmade--that may endanger civilization from the far reaches of space to tiny viruses, doomsday sources are many.
World War I is the first lethal combination of Industrial Age technology and war on a large scale.
From the earliest recorded account of an amputation and subsequent prosthesis in ancient Hindu writings, to today's use of plastics and space-age materials, we chronicle the long history of prosthetic devices.
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.
Heavy metals occupy select periodic table portions and are essential to America's economic and military might, stored in National Defense Stockpile vital metals include copper, uranium, lead, zinc, nickel, and corrosion-resistant superalloys.
After an oxygen tank explodes, scientists and engineers race against time to save the crew of crippled spacecraft Apollo 13 the mission, which nearly ended in tragedy, becomes a resounding success and exemplifies NASA's finest hour.
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald the Buffalo Creek Dam disaster the explosion of a supertanker in Los Angeles Harbor.
Unearthing the many murky mysteries of the soil plunging into the muck that paved the way for groundbreaking innovations.
Adam Richman visits a central Pennsylvanian cheese maker with an award-winning mozzarella inside grocery giant Kroger as they slice, shred and package over 2.5-million lbs. of cheese per week.
Tours of some of the world's finest whiskey distilleries demonstrate how different countries put their unique stamps on an ancient drink called the "water of life" Jack Daniel's Jim Beam Canadian Club Jameson's Glenlivet.
Strength measurement explores why some things are stronger than others examine rope, tractor, diamond, tugboat, and plastic strength from Spectra fiber to Lexan, discovering where, how, and why strength matters in daily life applications.
When a burning gusher shoots flames into the air, only a handful of men know how to snuff out the monster fighting fire with fire, they place explosives around the flames to blow it out, or douse it with tons of water.
Mankind harnesses electric power from a variety of sources.
Steam power Jay Leno fires up two steam cars and an 11-ton steam tractor built in 1860 coal-burning boiler century-old steam locomotive paddlewheel steamboat.
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald the Buffalo Creek Dam disaster the explosion of a supertanker in Los Angeles Harbor.
Unearthing the many murky mysteries of the soil plunging into the muck that paved the way for groundbreaking innovations.
Adam Richman visits a central Pennsylvanian cheese maker with an award-winning mozzarella inside grocery giant Kroger as they slice, shred and package over 2.5-million lbs. of cheese per week.
Tours of some of the world's finest whiskey distilleries demonstrate how different countries put their unique stamps on an ancient drink called the "water of life" Jack Daniel's Jim Beam Canadian Club Jameson's Glenlivet.
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