His movies are legend, his women beautiful, and his toys the best in the world James Bond is foiling villains in space-age flying machines or eavesdropping on his enemies with ultra-sophisticated spy gear.
A fun-filled glimpse into the not so distant history of video games since inception, the gaming industry has been a driving force in computer technology and video games are one of today's dominant entertainment mediums.
Benjamin Franklin, the oldest Founding Father, was the late 18th century's foremost scientist and greatest inventor created Pennsylvania Stove, lightning rod, glass armonica for Mozart and Beethoven and anti-counterfeiting techniques.
DVD, CD, PDA, HDTV, PVR--used to be the ultimate in "gotta have it" gadgets and gizmos and "to die for" technology that populate a digital world of acronyms.
Leonardo da Vinci remains intriguing 500 years after death beyond great artist, he was remarkable scientist and inventor whose notebooks contained incredible machines from weapons to submarines, robots, and analogue computers with workable plans.
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.
Arguably the most influential book ever written, the Bible provides a glimpse into the origins of ancient technology and its use to withstand the elements, build great structures, wage war, and conserve precious water.
Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park, created electric lights, power systems, motion pictures, recorded sound, and tattoo pens his innovations evolved into modern CDs, iPods, satellite radio, and technologies from Internet to outer space.
Thomas Edison announces plans for the central lighting of New York before an electrical system exists or electric light is invented.
His movies are legend, his women beautiful, and his toys the best in the world James Bond is foiling villains in space-age flying machines or eavesdropping on his enemies with ultra-sophisticated spy gear.
A fun-filled glimpse into the not so distant history of video games since inception, the gaming industry has been a driving force in computer technology and video games are one of today's dominant entertainment mediums.
Benjamin Franklin, the oldest Founding Father, was the late 18th century's foremost scientist and greatest inventor created Pennsylvania Stove, lightning rod, glass armonica for Mozart and Beethoven and anti-counterfeiting techniques.
DVD, CD, PDA, HDTV, PVR--used to be the ultimate in "gotta have it" gadgets and gizmos and "to die for" technology that populate a digital world of acronyms.
Inventions for holding off a global warming meltdown include giant solar energy towers, a rooftop wind turbine, a car that runs on air and a kite that tows a cargo ship.
From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper we'll see the 21st Century's cutting-edge "green" technologies in action.
George Washington Carver rose from slavery to become one of the 20th century's greatest scientists at Tuskegee Institute, he invented over 300 peanut uses, developed crop rotation, and changed rural economy through agricultural innovations.
A fascinating journey from farm to table the dizzying heights of California's date palm trees the soggy Wisconsin cranberry marshes the cavernous labyrinths of Pennsylvania's mushroom farms picking through the most unique forms of harvesting.
They are lethal tools that ensured our survival, altered our evolution, and maintained our dominion over other animals though hunting technology is the backbone of a multi-billion dollar sports industry, current cutting-edge gear.
America's orchards and farms balance hand labor with mechanization through efficient harvesting methods explore orchard management, California's largest fruit packing house, Nebraska corn fields, Wisconsin cranberry marshes, and more.
Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking--whatever the crop, there's a custom machine to harvest it it all began with handpicking and today it's often one man and one machine harvesting hundreds of acres in a single day.