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.
2025-12-09 08:23:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-09 09:13:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
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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.
2025-12-09 07:32:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-09 08:23:00 +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.
2025-12-09 06:40:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-09 07:32:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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.
2025-12-09 05:49:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-09 06:40:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Tobacco's ancient discovery and Andes cultivation leads to modern North Carolina farming and Dominican Republic Fuente cigar plantation explore harvesting techniques, public health concerns with Surgeon General, and nicotine replacement therapies.
2025-12-08 23:51:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-09 00:42:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
A study of the discoveries, inventions and technological advances that have helped us understand and predict weather from observations made by early humans, to Doppler radar and satellite imaging, we'll see how man has tried to harness weather.
2025-12-08 22:59:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 23:51:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Who could imagine life without our "man-made weather"? On cold winter nights and hot summer days, we are forever grateful to the visionaries who took two basic elements--fire and ice--and turned them into true modern marvels.
2025-12-08 22:08:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 22:59:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Snow forms through nucleation in storm clouds but faces pollution threats explore Storm Peak Laboratory cloud research, Colorado ski resort snowmaking technology, avalanche rescue innovations, and Buffalo blizzard forecasting.
2025-12-08 21:17:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 22:08:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Water exists in three forms at same temperature as nature's powerful landscape carver and life supporter explore its multidimensional character from bottled water industry to nuclear reactors, irrigation systems, and artistic fountain displays.
2025-12-08 20:25:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 21:17:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Hundreds of years before steel and plastic, wood was the building block of America from the historical, to the modern, to the timeless, episode explores the surprising ways people cannot live without wood.
2025-12-08 19:35:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 20:25:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Tea ranks as world's second most popular drink with ancient origins explore Lipton's Suffolk plant producing teabags, Charleston Plantation's cultivation, Boston Tea Party history, Clipper Ships bringing Chinese tea, and modern herbal varieties.
2025-12-08 18:44:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 19:35:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Earth's non-human inhabitants use tools, build structures, create traps, and farm Egyptian vultures crack ostrich eggs with stones, chimpanzees extract termites with tool kits, prairie dogs dig subterranean homes, and ants raise aphid herds.
2025-12-08 17:51:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 18:44:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
A study of the discoveries, inventions and technological advances that have helped us understand and predict weather from observations made by early humans, to Doppler radar and satellite imaging, we'll see how man has tried to harness weather.
2025-12-08 10:59:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 11:51:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Who could imagine life without our "man-made weather"? On cold winter nights and hot summer days, we are forever grateful to the visionaries who took two basic elements--fire and ice--and turned them into true modern marvels.
2025-12-08 10:08:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 10:59:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Snow forms through nucleation in storm clouds but faces pollution threats explore Storm Peak Laboratory cloud research, Colorado ski resort snowmaking technology, avalanche rescue innovations, and Buffalo blizzard forecasting.
2025-12-08 09:17:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 10:08:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Water exists in three forms at same temperature as nature's powerful landscape carver and life supporter explore its multidimensional character from bottled water industry to nuclear reactors, irrigation systems, and artistic fountain displays.
2025-12-08 08:25:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 09:17:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Hundreds of years before steel and plastic, wood was the building block of America from the historical, to the modern, to the timeless, episode explores the surprising ways people cannot live without wood.
2025-12-08 07:35:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 08:25:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Tea ranks as world's second most popular drink with ancient origins explore Lipton's Suffolk plant producing teabags, Charleston Plantation's cultivation, Boston Tea Party history, Clipper Ships bringing Chinese tea, and modern herbal varieties.
2025-12-08 06:44:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 07:35:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Earth's non-human inhabitants use tools, build structures, create traps, and farm Egyptian vultures crack ostrich eggs with stones, chimpanzees extract termites with tool kits, prairie dogs dig subterranean homes, and ants raise aphid herds.
2025-12-08 05:51:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 06:44:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Towering skyscrapers buzzing with life, intricate tunnels connecting entire communities, mighty dams that tame the wildest rivers--this is construction animal style.
2025-12-08 05:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 05:51:00 +0000 UTC(51m)