Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.
Technological advancements may eliminate the need for human drivers, possibly reducing the frequency of car accidents.
The convertible transforms the driving experience.
Mechanical feats of strength by the world's most-powerful elevators, a monster mine machine, the world's strongest mountain bike, a space vehicle transporter and an unbeatable blender.
Trains capable of speeds of up to 190 miles per hour can be found throughout the world scientists are looking at new alternatives to electricity, including magnetic levitation that can move passenger trains 345 miles per hour and beyond.
From the beginning of time humans worked to protect themselves against the very element that keeps them alive: water the episode explores the fight against ferocious weather and floods with state-of-the-art roofing, wraps, tarps, boats and more.
World-shaking crashes efforts to make auto racing safer the latest in motorcycle crash survival equipment a sky diver survives falling 11,000 feet without a parachute NASA's asteroid-tracking team colliding subatomic particles.
Explore the world of monster trucks, mechanical beasts weighing 10,000 pounds that entertain audiences with raw power go behind the scenes to meet the drivers who race these mammoth vehicles in spectacular competitions.
Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.
Technological advancements may eliminate the need for human drivers, possibly reducing the frequency of car accidents.
The convertible transforms the driving experience.
Mechanical feats of strength by the world's most-powerful elevators, a monster mine machine, the world's strongest mountain bike, a space vehicle transporter and an unbeatable blender.
Trains capable of speeds of up to 190 miles per hour can be found throughout the world scientists are looking at new alternatives to electricity, including magnetic levitation that can move passenger trains 345 miles per hour and beyond.
Since its completion in 1869, the Suez Canal has been a vital link in world trade and a point of controversy in geopolitics today, more than 20,000 ships transit the canal yearly.
Construction of the California Department of Transportation Headquarters design excavation skeleton hurricane- and earthquake-proofing structural systems.
An underground subway system transforms the bustling metropolis of Athens, Greece, alleviating chronic traffic problems, meeting the needs of the 2004 Olympics and uncovering thousands of invaluable artifacts.
The story of the construction of America's national highway system, from its beginnings in 1912, which it was conceived by auto and headlight tycoons, to its completion in 1984, when the last stoplight was removed and buried.
When finally completed, China's Three Gorges Dam will tower 607 feet in the air and weigh more than forty Great Pyramids along with China's Great Wall, it will constitute of the two man-made objects visible from the moon.
Explore the arch, one of humanity's strongest and most versatile structures Romans perfected what Egyptians and Greeks experimented with, Arabs incorporated into mosques, Europeans into churches, and modern builders use in dams and future space.
In 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser, needed to harness the flow of the world's longest river: the Nile how the Aswan High Dam socially, politically, culturally, and agriculturally affected Egypt.