Modern Marvels
Some machines built for sheer spectacle.
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Modern Marvels
Electrical linemen repair 345,000-volt power lines from helicopters as part of America's nearly two-century hardwiring story fiber optic cables transmitting light since the late 1970s remain vital infrastructure alongside wireless technology.
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Modern Marvels
Power-driven machines used to make metal parts help build the modern world.
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Modern Marvels
Mankind harnesses electric power from a variety of sources.
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Modern Marvels
Around the world and across the eons, gold stands as a symbol of power, wealth, and love the story of the hunters of the precious metal and their methods for extracting it.
2026-01-13 11:52:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 12:45:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Half a mile below earth's surface, miners extract rough diamonds, pure carbon substances that become precious gems when cut and polished explore diamond mining history and technology from 4th century BC to modern South Africa.
2026-01-13 11:01:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 11:52:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
The transmission of forces from point to point through fluid opens the door for the Industrial Revolution.
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Modern Marvels
High-flying workers who depend on rope to do their jobs safely how window washers, rock climbers and bungee jumpers safely use ropes dockworkers who rely on ropes around the clock industrial chain links.
2026-01-13 03:21:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 04:11:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
From colossal devices designed to save the world to mind-expanding, world-shrinking machines, tracing the evolution of mice and menus learning about the world's most powerful computer that operates at 12-trillion calculations a second.
2026-01-13 02:28:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 03:21:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
The celebration of Halloween has become a $6 billion economic powerhouse the annual Halloween Haunt at Knott's Berry Farm the production of monster makeup, masks and costumes carving pumpkins making fake blood haunted house.
2026-01-13 01:37:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 02:28:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Some activities occur only when the world is dark fishermen use lights to lure squid to their nets finding night crawlers in Toronto military night-vision gear police helicopter's Spectrolab spotlight baseball stadium.
2026-01-13 00:47:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 01:37:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Rats are some of the most dangerous, destructive and useful animals on the planet an exterminator comes face to face with the rodents hundreds of thousands of rats are bred and raised in a a high-tech facility.
2026-01-12 23:55:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 00:47:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2026-01-12 23:06:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 23:55:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
Modern Marvels
Even in ancient times, city dwellers needed a scenic break from the urban landscape but parks play a more important role than mere relief from tension, they also keep temperatures down and supply much-needed oxygen in congested cities.
2026-01-12 22:12:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 23:06:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
Modern Marvels
Unleashing the energy behind rocks exploring how they rock the world from the ground up marble is mined miles underground precious moon stones lighter than water.
2026-01-12 21:21:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 22:12:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
High-flying workers who depend on rope to do their jobs safely how window washers, rock climbers and bungee jumpers safely use ropes dockworkers who rely on ropes around the clock industrial chain links.
2026-01-12 15:21:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 16:11:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
From colossal devices designed to save the world to mind-expanding, world-shrinking machines, tracing the evolution of mice and menus learning about the world's most powerful computer that operates at 12-trillion calculations a second.
2026-01-12 14:28:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 15:21:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
The celebration of Halloween has become a $6 billion economic powerhouse the annual Halloween Haunt at Knott's Berry Farm the production of monster makeup, masks and costumes carving pumpkins making fake blood haunted house.
2026-01-12 13:37:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 14:28:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Some activities occur only when the world is dark fishermen use lights to lure squid to their nets finding night crawlers in Toronto military night-vision gear police helicopter's Spectrolab spotlight baseball stadium.
2026-01-12 12:47:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 13:37:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Rats are some of the most dangerous, destructive and useful animals on the planet an exterminator comes face to face with the rodents hundreds of thousands of rats are bred and raised in a a high-tech facility.
2026-01-12 11:55:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 12:47:00 +0000 UTC(52m)