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The Arizona Cardinals' dome stadium and its movable lawn Scotts Company Toro Company sprinkler systems developed by the Rain Bird Company.
2025-12-11 19:34:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 20:24:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
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Modern Marvels
Glue appears in everything from carpet to Space Shuttles and surgery explore its trajectory from Neolithic cave dwellers using animal glue on ceremonial skulls to modern Elmer's, 3M tapes, and super glues that can lift 6,000-pound trucks.
2025-12-11 18:41:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 19:34:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Vacuums aren't just for cleaning floors there are giant vacuums that clean up after disasters like Hurricane Katrina and underwater vacuums that save coral reefs by suctioning up invasive algae.
2025-12-11 17:49:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 18:41:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Mixtures of metals and caustic chemicals that make our tech, tools and toys surge with energy visit the world's most powerful battery in Fairbanks, Alaska--13,760 hulking cells humming with 5,000 volts, ready to help the city survive power outages.
2025-12-11 17:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 17:49:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
Modern Marvels
How distance, time, speed, weight and temperature are measured weighing a whale how a speedometer works the National Institute of Standards and Technology measuring tapes made by Stanley Tools.
2025-12-11 10:56:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 11:47:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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From tub to toilet to toothpaste, here's everything you ever wanted to know about the most used and least discussed room in the house.
2025-12-11 10:05:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 10:56:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Bathroom technology Kohler makes a digitally controlled shower complete with steam, music and LED chromatherapy manufacturing sinks "uncloggable" toilet the engineering behind low-flow showers and toilets.
2025-12-11 09:15:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 10:05:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
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The biggest machines and their smallest counterparts Airbus A380 and microjet Boss Hoss 425-horsepower bike and 18-inch tall pocket bike world's smallest production car.
2025-12-11 08:24:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 09:15:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
The Arizona Cardinals' dome stadium and its movable lawn Scotts Company Toro Company sprinkler systems developed by the Rain Bird Company.
2025-12-11 07:34:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 08:24:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Glue appears in everything from carpet to Space Shuttles and surgery explore its trajectory from Neolithic cave dwellers using animal glue on ceremonial skulls to modern Elmer's, 3M tapes, and super glues that can lift 6,000-pound trucks.
2025-12-11 06:41:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 07:34:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Vacuums aren't just for cleaning floors there are giant vacuums that clean up after disasters like Hurricane Katrina and underwater vacuums that save coral reefs by suctioning up invasive algae.
2025-12-11 05:49:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 06:41:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Mixtures of metals and caustic chemicals that make our tech, tools and toys surge with energy visit the world's most powerful battery in Fairbanks, Alaska--13,760 hulking cells humming with 5,000 volts, ready to help the city survive power outages.
2025-12-11 05:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-11 05:49:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
Modern Marvels
Dynamite explodes hills, drills divide stone walls, and giant cranes pull 400,000-pound blocks from quarry pits rock serves as civilization's raw material for roads, buildings, paint, glue, makeup, antacids, and chewing gum.
2025-12-10 22:55:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-10 23:49:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
Modern Marvels
The controversial logging industry topples 4 billion trees annually in a world striving to protect nature while devouring it.
2025-12-10 22:04:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-10 22:55:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
A historic survey of adaptation to killer environmental conditions travels to the desert, Arctic, sea, jungle and space, charting the body's physiological responses to extreme circumstances such as frostbite, heatstroke and hypothermia.
2025-12-10 21:12:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-10 22:04:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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The assembly and surprising history behind the airboat a wild ride on a big-tired swamp buggy local delicacies that bring new meaning to acquired taste a massive engineering project to divert the mighty Mississippi River pythons and alligators.
2025-12-10 20:22:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-10 21:12:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
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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.
2025-12-10 19:32:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-10 20:22:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper we'll see the 21st Century's cutting-edge "green" technologies in action.
2025-12-10 18:41:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-10 19:32:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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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.
2025-12-10 17:50:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-10 18:41:00 +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.
2025-12-10 17:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-10 17:50:00 +0000 UTC(50m)