
Machines: How They Work
The extraordinary inner workings of a mechanical watch, a toilet and a yoyo.

The extraordinary inner workings of a mechanical watch, a toilet and a yoyo.

The extraordinary inner workings of a safe, a tennis ball launcher and a music box.

The extraordinary inner workings of an escalator, a leaf blower and a tape measure.

The extraordinary inner workings of a carwash, a blender and a bicycle pump.

The extraordinary inner workings of a chainsaw, a jukebox and a fishing reel.

One of the countries in the United Arab Emirates has an indoor alpine ski resort.

Gotthard Base Tunnel creates a flat-rail link for future travel through the Alps.

The Woodrow Wilson Bridge spans the Potomac River connecting Virginia and Maryland.

A team of experts builds an impressive cable car on Hong Kong's Lantau Island.

Constructing El Cajon Dam on the Rio Grande de Santiago in Mexico.

Europe's first liquefied natural-gas plant.

An airport made from water and ice; a fish factory churns out millions of pounds of seafood a day.

A barge carries an entire train; a flying ambulance saves lives at 14,000 feet.

Alaska's Coast Guard fights waters to maintain buoys; rewards below Alaska's surface.

Alaskan engineers build a massive dam to power an entire town; the world's largest helicopters.

A machine with 588 teeth keeps the airport running; tugboats break through ice in the port.

A ship built to endure tsunami size waves travels on a highway unlike any other in North America.

The transition from the Space Shuttle to the Constellation Program.

Host Danny Forster visits the Al Raha Beach development in Abu Dhabi.

Bringing water to drought-ridden farms in western Peru.