The 1969 flight of Apollo 11, which landed two American astronauts on the Moon, as seen through the eyes of the astronauts, mission controllers, engineers, and designers who made it happen.
In 1941, penicillin was first used to save human life now, bacteria has emerged resistant to every known antibiotic and scientists have begun to fear that the era of the wonder drugs is near to its end.
Brad Paisley and his crew of truckers on the road between Little Rock and Tulsa the Ford F-150 tackles a devilish test course the world's most nimble tow truck extracts a car from the tightest parking spot imaginable Mack truck fanatic.
A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made aluminum is used to make reflective mirrors for telescopes at NASA the process of making aluminum foil why aluminum baseball bats are better than wood.
In 1973, a desperate America, starved by an OPEC embargo, began construction on an 800 mile lifeline for its oil hunger study the technological triumph of the Alaskan oil pipeline built over mountains and tundra, where temperatures drop below zero.
A large factory-fishing boat hunts down, catches and processes 300 tons of Alaskan pollock each day in the Bering Sea the crew reveals the inner workings of one of the most sophisticated and complex vessels afloat.
From brutal winters to bug-infested summers, survival in the unforgiving landscape of Alaska requires an array of technological innovations and creative solutions.
A look up at the symbol of the American Century - the skyscraper the construction of which is a triumph of engineering and capitalism climb to the top of the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Sears Tower, and World Trade Center.
The art deco Chrysler Building stands out in the New York skyline.
It was meant to be a temporary exhibit, a demonstration of French engineering acumen at the Paris World's Fair but to Parisians, the tower, designed by the brash, young Gustave Eiffel, came to stand for much more.
From a massive oil spill to refinery blaze to a downed plane, find out what went wrong and how to prevent the next engineering disaster.
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, submerging 80% underwater due to levee and pumping system failures investigate engineering causes behind Superdome nightmare, major escape route design flaws, and Louisiana coastline sinking issues.
Examine tragedies including 1999 Milwaukee ironworkers' 200-foot fall, China's Sunjiwan coal mine explosion, fluoroscope x-ray radiation exposure in shoe stores, California's Salton Sea drainage issues, and Soviet Aral Sea irrigation disaster.
Examines what happens when engineers get their calculations wrong.
A look up at the symbol of the American Century - the skyscraper the construction of which is a triumph of engineering and capitalism climb to the top of the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Sears Tower, and World Trade Center.
The art deco Chrysler Building stands out in the New York skyline.
It was meant to be a temporary exhibit, a demonstration of French engineering acumen at the Paris World's Fair but to Parisians, the tower, designed by the brash, young Gustave Eiffel, came to stand for much more.
From a massive oil spill to refinery blaze to a downed plane, find out what went wrong and how to prevent the next engineering disaster.
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, submerging 80% underwater due to levee and pumping system failures investigate engineering causes behind Superdome nightmare, major escape route design flaws, and Louisiana coastline sinking issues.
Examine tragedies including 1999 Milwaukee ironworkers' 200-foot fall, China's Sunjiwan coal mine explosion, fluoroscope x-ray radiation exposure in shoe stores, California's Salton Sea drainage issues, and Soviet Aral Sea irrigation disaster.