Modern Marvels
For over a century, the U.S. steel industry is a powerful symbol of the nation's industrial might.
For over a century, the U.S. steel industry is a powerful symbol of the nation's industrial might.
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California's date palm trees; Wisconsin cranberry marshes; Pennsylvania's mushroom farms.
Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking-, there's a custom machine to harvest it.
Every 15 minutes, Americans insert more than 3.5 million coins into machines.
Extreme horsepower world: fastest cars, hydroplane boats, container ships, and hybrid technology.
Bridges reveal a lot about the history of New York City and how it changed destinies.
A countdown of the top gizmos and gadgets featured on "Modern Marvels."
Cannons evolved from 13th-century fort weapons to modern smart weapons and self-propelled guns.
With technological advances, our struggle against the sea has turned into a luxurious holiday.
World's largest machines: car presses, 125-ton chainsaws, telescopes, and Keck Observatory Hawaii.
For over a century, the U.S. steel industry is a powerful symbol of the nation's industrial might.
Salt is a versatile substance with 14,000 known uses; visiting a salt mine under Lake Erie.
The U.S. Navy's most lethal fighter, the F-14, soars at supersonic speeds.
Freight trains transport 1.8 billion tons annually through Union Pacific's Bailey yard system.
Dynamite blasts out the natural resources that have built our modern world.
California's date palm trees; Wisconsin cranberry marshes; Pennsylvania's mushroom farms.
Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking-, there's a custom machine to harvest it.
Mankind makes use of lead, a versatile but toxic metal, for 6,000 years.
Power-driven machines used to make metal parts help build the modern world.
Examines what happens when engineers get their calculations wrong.
A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made; making aluminum foil.
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