
Modern Marvels
Airport runways play a vital role as the backbone of aviation.

Airport runways play a vital role as the backbone of aviation.

Delves into the little-known, hugely important, multi-billion-dollar industry of product testing, where wrinkles get ironed out and goods are stripped of marketing and hype to see if they work meet product testers who serve as truth squads.

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.

Traveling some of the world's most dangerous roads, including Bolivia's "Death Road," California's fog-shrouded Highway 99, the road to Baghdad's airport and Colorado's Million Dollar Highway highway safety off-road drivers.

Get behind the wheel and take control of the some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet these aren't the average vehicles and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else.

A jet truck that can travel 300 mph the Baltimore Technical Assistance Response Unit's mobile command truck a garbage truck with an articulated arm how SWAT, bomb squad, HAZMAT, and crime scene specialty trucks are built.

The convertible transforms the driving experience.

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway stretches 2,500 miles from Boston to Miami through canals, land cuts, and barrier islands providing protected passage conceived in late 18th century as America's first superhighway before road systems existed.

Airport runways play a vital role as the backbone of aviation.

Delves into the little-known, hugely important, multi-billion-dollar industry of product testing, where wrinkles get ironed out and goods are stripped of marketing and hype to see if they work meet product testers who serve as truth squads.

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.

Traveling some of the world's most dangerous roads, including Bolivia's "Death Road," California's fog-shrouded Highway 99, the road to Baghdad's airport and Colorado's Million Dollar Highway highway safety off-road drivers.

Get behind the wheel and take control of the some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet these aren't the average vehicles and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else.

A jet truck that can travel 300 mph the Baltimore Technical Assistance Response Unit's mobile command truck a garbage truck with an articulated arm how SWAT, bomb squad, HAZMAT, and crime scene specialty trucks are built.

The convertible transforms the driving experience.

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway stretches 2,500 miles from Boston to Miami through canals, land cuts, and barrier islands providing protected passage conceived in late 18th century as America's first superhighway before road systems existed.

Espionage has been used for at least the last 4,000 years the episode focus on the last 100 years of cloak and dagger technology, from early code-breaking computers to satellite reconnaissance and take a look at Bond-type gadgets of the Cold War.

The history of one of Thomas Edison's first inventions, the phonograph rare photographs and recordings document Edison's race against Alexander Graham Bell.

In the world of surveillance, Big Brother is not only watching, he's also listening, analyzing, recording, scanning, and tracking every aspect of our lives with advanced surveillance technology, there's virtually no place to hide.

Military and police personnel as well as private citizens hone their shooting skills.