
Modern Marvels
Koenigsegg CCR automobile; Shanghai Maglev train.

Koenigsegg CCR automobile; Shanghai Maglev train.

Survival in the unforgiving landscape of Alaska requires an array of technological innovations.

The episode explores the fight against ferocious weather and floods.

Fast and powerful, they come in a hundred shapes and a thousand colors.

Giant, flame-breathing robots; floating fortress; diesel engine with 108,000 horsepower.

Tugboats; roller-coasters; funicular railroads; flat-bed truck; 747.

Wind tunnel; flight simulators; mining machine; IMAX technology.

Trucks form the backbone of the construction and transportation industries.

Limousines have been stretched to greater and greater lengths.

Hoover Dam; Utah State University Water Research Laboratory hydraulics lab in Logan, Utah.

How superhighways move millions of people every year; 20-lane project in Houston.

Extreme horsepower world: fastest cars, hydroplane boats, container ships, and hybrid technology.

Catering to more than twenty million truckers, truck stops are bigger and better than ever.

Koenigsegg CCR automobile; Shanghai Maglev train.

World's largest machines: car presses, 125-ton chainsaws, telescopes, and Keck Observatory Hawaii.

The factory where Yamaha makes ATVs, WaveRunners and more; amusement park Diggerland USA.

Excavators; machines lug NASA rockets to the launch pad; cruise ship.

Steam power; Jay Leno fires up two steam cars and an 11-ton steam tractor; locomotive; steamboat.

Dragsters hit top speeds above 330 mph racing down straightaways.

Traffic was created on roadways, railways, airways, and seaways; traffic that must be controlled.