Modern Marvels
Unleashing the energy behind rocks exploring how they rock the world from the ground up marble is mined miles underground precious moon stones lighter than water.
2025-12-15 17:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 17:51:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Modern Marvels
Ice traps a treasure of energy on the ocean floor and confounds scientists still trying to solve why it's so slippery.
2025-12-15 11:02:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 11:52:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2025-12-15 10:11:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 11:02:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Termites, mosquitos, rats, mice, ants and cockroaches have spread damage, disease and death for millions of years.
2025-12-15 09:17:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 10:11:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2025-12-15 08:27:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 09:17:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2025-12-15 07:36:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 08:27:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Tunnels, whether underwater, blasted through solid rock or negotiating the shifting strata of the Earth's unstable crust, represent a remarkable feat of engineering.
2025-12-15 06:43:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 07:36:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2025-12-15 05:51:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 06:43:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Unleashing the energy behind rocks exploring how they rock the world from the ground up marble is mined miles underground precious moon stones lighter than water.
2025-12-15 05:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 05:51:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
In 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser, needed to harness the flow of the world's longest river: the Nile how the Aswan High Dam socially, politically, culturally, and agriculturally affected Egypt.
2025-12-14 22:17:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 23:12:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
Modern Marvels
Offshore oil drilling is one of mankind's greatest technological feats from the beginning of oil discovery, the oceans' vast reserves have been the ultimate frontier see how these superstructures revolutionized the search for crude oil.
2025-12-14 21:22:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 22:17:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
Modern Marvels
The U.S. Navy's diving and salvage programs the USS Salvor's underwater remote-operated robots bomb-locating minisub Alvin.
2025-12-14 20:28:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 21:22:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
Modern Marvels
When the men and women aboard a modern submarine hear the command to dive, they can take a measure of comfort in the fact that no US sub has been lost in nearly 40 years, though it's been said that the sea is a more hostile environment than space.
2025-12-14 19:35:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 20:28:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
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.
2025-12-14 18:44:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 19:35:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Since 200 BC, when the Greek Philosopher Archimedes created a device for lifting water, the pump has been synonymous with transporting Earth's most precious resource.
2025-12-14 17:52:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 18:44:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Blowing the lid off the many uses of pressure, including keeping a fridge cool, and making volcanoes erupt.
2025-12-14 17:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 17:52:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
The technology behind the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, including the bobsled run, ski jump and speedskating.
2025-12-14 11:12:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 12:03:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
In 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser, needed to harness the flow of the world's longest river: the Nile how the Aswan High Dam socially, politically, culturally, and agriculturally affected Egypt.
2025-12-14 10:17:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 11:12:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
Modern Marvels
Offshore oil drilling is one of mankind's greatest technological feats from the beginning of oil discovery, the oceans' vast reserves have been the ultimate frontier see how these superstructures revolutionized the search for crude oil.
2025-12-14 09:22:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 10:17:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
Modern Marvels
The U.S. Navy's diving and salvage programs the USS Salvor's underwater remote-operated robots bomb-locating minisub Alvin.
2025-12-14 08:28:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-14 09:22:00 +0000 UTC(54m)