It was meant to be a temporary exhibit, a demonstration of French engineering acumen at the Paris World's Fair but to Parisians, the tower, designed by the brash, young Gustave Eiffel, came to stand for much more.
At 5:30 a.m., July 16, 1945, scientists and dignitaries awaited the detonation of the first atomic bomb in a desolate area of the New Mexico desert aptly known as Jornada del Muerto--Journey of Death.
The Pentagon, completed in 1943, serves as the five-sided nerve center for the nation's armed services and stands as the largest office building in the world, conjuring an imposing image of American military power.
The vehicles that transport the President of the United States aren't your ordinary planes, trains, and automobiles: they are top-secret and for your Average Joe, there's only two ways to find out what they're really like inside.
The technology behind the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, including the bobsled run, ski jump and speedskating.
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.
The philosophy, architecture of today's U.S. prisons emerge from those of history.
It was meant to be a temporary exhibit, a demonstration of French engineering acumen at the Paris World's Fair but to Parisians, the tower, designed by the brash, young Gustave Eiffel, came to stand for much more.
At 5:30 a.m., July 16, 1945, scientists and dignitaries awaited the detonation of the first atomic bomb in a desolate area of the New Mexico desert aptly known as Jornada del Muerto--Journey of Death.
The Pentagon, completed in 1943, serves as the five-sided nerve center for the nation's armed services and stands as the largest office building in the world, conjuring an imposing image of American military power.
The vehicles that transport the President of the United States aren't your ordinary planes, trains, and automobiles: they are top-secret and for your Average Joe, there's only two ways to find out what they're really like inside.
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.
Fast and powerful, they come in a hundred shapes and a thousand colors to some, motorcycles symbolize freedom to others, they simply stand for trouble episode race back in time and see how, for over a hundred years, motorcycles inspired riders.
Giant robots work factory floors and outer space floating fortresses house 6,000 military personnel with length matching Empire State Building's height diesel engines produce 108,000 horsepower in audacious engineering feats worldwide.
Tugboats roller-coasters funicular railroads flat-bed truck 747.
Big machines span NASA's world's biggest wind tunnel and flight simulator, Joy Mining's Continuous Miner underground machine, London Eye's 443-foot observation wheel, IMAX's largest film technology, and Claas Cougar world's biggest lawnmower.
Trucks transport a staggering 70 percent of all the nation's goods looking at the amazingly diverse world of American trucks and the colorful men and women who drive them.
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.
Fast and powerful, they come in a hundred shapes and a thousand colors to some, motorcycles symbolize freedom to others, they simply stand for trouble episode race back in time and see how, for over a hundred years, motorcycles inspired riders.
Giant robots work factory floors and outer space floating fortresses house 6,000 military personnel with length matching Empire State Building's height diesel engines produce 108,000 horsepower in audacious engineering feats worldwide.