From Stonehenge to the Hubbell Telescope, mankind has always been a race of stargazers unforgettable film footage and expert accounts reveal the facts of astronomy's most mind-boggling discoveries.
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.
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.
The construction of a terrorist-proof safe room, and how windows might someday act as biological weapons detectors what technology can do to protect civilians, and how they can use technology to protect themselfs.
A computer-managed home in Colorado showcases the high tech gadgetry destined to inhabit every wall in the future a network of walls with cutouts and Plexiglas windows reveal how pests and creepy crawlies of all kinds can congregate.
Checking out the wonderful world of wood exploring all the historical, modern and timeless ways people can't live without wood, including sailboats, airplanes, wagon wheels, and charcoal.
The development of jet technology and rocket fuel during World War II culminates in test pilot Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier on Oct. 10, 1947.
From Stonehenge to the Hubbell Telescope, mankind has always been a race of stargazers unforgettable film footage and expert accounts reveal the facts of astronomy's most mind-boggling discoveries.
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.
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.
The construction of a terrorist-proof safe room, and how windows might someday act as biological weapons detectors what technology can do to protect civilians, and how they can use technology to protect themselfs.
A computer-managed home in Colorado showcases the high tech gadgetry destined to inhabit every wall in the future a network of walls with cutouts and Plexiglas windows reveal how pests and creepy crawlies of all kinds can congregate.
Checking out the wonderful world of wood exploring all the historical, modern and timeless ways people can't live without wood, including sailboats, airplanes, wagon wheels, and charcoal.
Ice traps a treasure of energy on the ocean floor and confounds scientists still trying to solve why it's so slippery.
Pyroman the life-size mannequin is exposed to more than 1,000 degrees F steel workers suit up to beat refinery heat coffee makers and hair dryers malfunction at Underwriters Laboratories a friction lab tests aircraft and race-car brakes.
Termites, mosquitos, rats, mice, ants and cockroaches have spread damage, disease and death for millions of years.
Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.
Drilling spirals through ground, rock, earth, ice, steel, and stone explore water drilling in New Mexico desert, oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico, deepest hole quests, ice core climate recovery, tunnel boring machines, and laser precision drilling.
Tunnels, whether underwater, blasted through solid rock or negotiating the shifting strata of the Earth's unstable crust, represent a remarkable feat of engineering.
Examines the history of radar, focusing on its role in the Allies' victory in World War II, from the Chain Home Network, rudimentary radar towers that ringed England's eastern coast, to the role of Boston's MIT in developing an English secret.