More than two million people die in the U.S. annually, creating 5,500 daily burials with 80 percent choosing caskets and 20 percent cremation explore dealing with death throughout centuries and today's $20-billion funeral industry.
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Chaos in Guadalajara, Mexico, when the city streets explode an airplane crash outside of Paris that ranks as one of the worst in history two mining dams in Italy collapse engulfing a village in a tidal wave of sludge.
Adrenaline runs high when Adam Richman visits the factory where Yamaha makes ATVs, WaveRunners and more an inside look at a company built to get people sky-high in paramotors amusement park Diggerland USA mech-suits submarine built for two.
Salute to tools and toys that stood the test of time from Zippo lighters to Palm Pilots examine technology behind familiar gadgets including flashlights, transistor radios, safety razors, and metronomes that changed lives.
America's technologically advanced military descends from Civil War innovations the first modern war introduced machine guns, aerial reconnaissance, battlefield medicine, ironclad ships, and aircraft carriers that revolutionized warfare.
Qatar represents everything a modern military command post it can be with the most sophisticated military information systems--from video-conferencing to real-time frontline satellite communication.
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.
An exploration of the world's most popular entertainment, from the boy genius who invented it to the RCA "General" who made it a reality.
The intense competition, the romance, the success and disappointment that led to the miracle of long distance communication.
A survey of torture devices employed throughout history, ranging from the ancient Greeks' Brazen Bull to the Spanish Inquisition's elaborate mechanisms.
More than two million people die in the U.S. annually, creating 5,500 daily burials with 80 percent choosing caskets and 20 percent cremation explore dealing with death throughout centuries and today's $20-billion funeral industry.
From Sherlock Holmes' examination of the physical evidence at a crime scene to today's DNA technology, a review of the history of crime detection through the use of forensic science.
Emergency room medicine has only been a recognized specialty since 1989 episode examines advances that led to the modern emergency room - from the Byzantine's establishment of the first hospitals around 1050 A.D. to today's telemedicine.
Examine tragedies including 1999 Milwaukee ironworkers' 200-foot fall, China's Sunjiwan coal mine explosion, fluoroscope x-ray radiation exposure in shoe stores, California's Salton Sea drainage issues, and Soviet Aral Sea irrigation disaster.
Since the turn of the 20th century, designers have competed to build them faster, taller, and steeper as technology pushes the envelope with flips, weightlessness, and more g-force than a jet, they have to calculate how much can the human body take.
A 2000 Ford Taurus gets dissected to demonstrate the evolution of the automobile's major systems automotive historians and experts describe how cars have evolved and explain major advances.
A survey of torture devices employed throughout history, ranging from the ancient Greeks' Brazen Bull to the Spanish Inquisition's elaborate mechanisms.
More than two million people die in the U.S. annually, creating 5,500 daily burials with 80 percent choosing caskets and 20 percent cremation explore dealing with death throughout centuries and today's $20-billion funeral industry.
From Sherlock Holmes' examination of the physical evidence at a crime scene to today's DNA technology, a review of the history of crime detection through the use of forensic science.
Emergency room medicine has only been a recognized specialty since 1989 episode examines advances that led to the modern emergency room - from the Byzantine's establishment of the first hospitals around 1050 A.D. to today's telemedicine.
Examine tragedies including 1999 Milwaukee ironworkers' 200-foot fall, China's Sunjiwan coal mine explosion, fluoroscope x-ray radiation exposure in shoe stores, California's Salton Sea drainage issues, and Soviet Aral Sea irrigation disaster.
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