The 1969 flight of Apollo 11, which landed two American astronauts on the Moon, as seen through the eyes of the astronauts, mission controllers, engineers, and designers who made it happen.
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Built with the pioneering use of steel-wire support cables, the Brooklyn Bridge became an instant symbol of American pride rare photographs and behind-the-scenes stories recall the politics, the struggles, and the tragedies that made it possible.
The 1969 flight of Apollo 11, which landed two American astronauts on the Moon, as seen through the eyes of the astronauts, mission controllers, engineers, and designers who made it happen.
A Michigan company designs water bottles the makers of bubble wrap share their secrets workers conquer the challenge of packaging the world's largest crane America's military goods and supplies are packaged.
The construction of the 51-mile canal that took ten years to build and employed over 40,000 workers, 6,000 of whom died of yellow fever, malaria, and other horrors an earlier, nine-year attempt by the French ended in failure and cost 20,000 lives.
Named one of the seven engineering wonders of the modern age, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel connects Virginia proper with its easternmost landmass stretching 17 miles across the historic bay, the structure includes highways and islands.
Pirates terrorized high seas since before recorded history at their 1700s power height, they influenced nations through England-Spain rivalry while bringing maritime technology innovations including modified ships for speed and power enhancement.
Get behind the wheel and take control of some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet these aren't the average vehicles and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else.
AV-8-Harrier jump jet Ford Explorer-Firestone tire rollovers offshore oil-rig fire derailment of a high-speed train computer errors almost set off nuclear war.
Wartime research and development have revolutionized communication, transportation, and medicine from Spam to nuclear power to hairspray and cell phones, life as we know it ironically owes a lot to war.
When the men and women aboard a modern submarine hear the command to dive, they can take a measure of comfort in the fact that no US sub has been lost in nearly 40 years, though it's been said that the sea is a more hostile environment than space.
The U.S. Navy's diving and salvage programs the USS Salvor's underwater remote-operated robots bomb-locating minisub Alvin.
Mankind harnesses electric power from a variety of sources.
Benjamin Franklin, the oldest Founding Father, was the late 18th century's foremost scientist and greatest inventor created Pennsylvania Stove, lightning rod, glass armonica for Mozart and Beethoven and anti-counterfeiting techniques.
The 1980s transitioned from Industrial to Information Age with brick cell phones, Pac-Man, Rubik's Cube, Sony Walkman, and CDs microchips revolutionized work, play, and communication through Silicon Valley innovations including Apple computers.
All life-forms and modern technology are built on a foundation of carbon the steel industry coal-fired power plants graphite pencils a charcoal water filter diamonds.
AV-8-Harrier jump jet Ford Explorer-Firestone tire rollovers offshore oil-rig fire derailment of a high-speed train computer errors almost set off nuclear war.
Wartime research and development have revolutionized communication, transportation, and medicine from Spam to nuclear power to hairspray and cell phones, life as we know it ironically owes a lot to war.
When the men and women aboard a modern submarine hear the command to dive, they can take a measure of comfort in the fact that no US sub has been lost in nearly 40 years, though it's been said that the sea is a more hostile environment than space.
The U.S. Navy's diving and salvage programs the USS Salvor's underwater remote-operated robots bomb-locating minisub Alvin.
Mankind harnesses electric power from a variety of sources.
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