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Dredgers clear and deepen ports for vessels that carry megacontainers.
2025-12-31 22:09:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 23:02:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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Modern Marvels
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.
2025-12-31 16:08:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 17:00:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper we'll see the 21st Century's cutting-edge "green" technologies in action.
2025-12-31 15:19:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 16:08:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2025-12-31 14:28:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 15:19:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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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.
2025-12-31 13:36:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 14:28:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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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.
2025-12-31 12:44:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 13:36:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2025-12-31 11:54:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 12:44:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2025-12-31 11:02:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 11:54:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Dredgers clear and deepen ports for vessels that carry megacontainers.
2025-12-31 10:09:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 11:02:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
All life-forms and modern technology are built on a foundation of carbon the steel industry coal-fired power plants graphite pencils a charcoal water filter diamonds.
2025-12-31 04:08:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 05:00:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Mankind makes use of lead, a versatile but toxic metal, for 6,000 years mining car battery factory specialists remove harmful lead objects from homes and businesses lead makes crystal sparkle.
2025-12-31 03:17:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 04:08:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Copper transports electricity, water, and heat while being essential for survival yet killing microbes this versatile metal conducts electricity globally, revolutionizes electronics, forms plumbing pipes, creates beautiful roofs, and more.
2025-12-31 02:26:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 03:17:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Chrome hot rod the Chrome Shop Mafia adds bling to truckers' big rigs in Missouri Illinois' Arlington Plating Co. adds luster to auto parts how Harley-Davidson puts chrome to work as both a decorative and protective feature of motorcycles.
2025-12-31 01:35:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 02:26:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made aluminum is used to make reflective mirrors for telescopes at NASA the process of making aluminum foil why aluminum baseball bats are better than wood.
2025-12-31 00:43:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 01:35:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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How iron mined in Minnesota is made into steel iron weapons revolutionize warfare military metallurgists customize weapons and demonstrate their firepower iron magnets.
2025-12-30 23:52:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 00:43:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Geological history from the Stone Age to the Space Age moon rocks provide clues to how planets were formed quarrying marble and granite blasting at a sand-and-gravel pit.
2025-12-30 23:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 23:52:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Thousands of tons of dirt transform a stadium into a Supercross course in Las Vegas special mud helps pros grip baseballs mud wrestling in Hawaii adobe and rammed-earth homes potting soil facility in California.
2025-12-30 22:09:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 23:00:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Mankind makes use of lead, a versatile but toxic metal, for 6,000 years mining car battery factory specialists remove harmful lead objects from homes and businesses lead makes crystal sparkle.
2025-12-30 15:17:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 16:08:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Copper transports electricity, water, and heat while being essential for survival yet killing microbes this versatile metal conducts electricity globally, revolutionizes electronics, forms plumbing pipes, creates beautiful roofs, and more.
2025-12-30 14:26:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 15:17:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Chrome hot rod the Chrome Shop Mafia adds bling to truckers' big rigs in Missouri Illinois' Arlington Plating Co. adds luster to auto parts how Harley-Davidson puts chrome to work as both a decorative and protective feature of motorcycles.
2025-12-30 13:35:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 14:26:00 +0000 UTC(51m)