Modern Marvels
Explore american harvest methods; orchard management, fruit packing, corn fields, and more.
2025-12-31 11:54:54 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 12:44:41 +0000 UTC(49m)
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Modern Marvels
Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking-, there's a custom machine to harvest it.
2025-12-31 11:02:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 11:54:54 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Dredgers, mechanical beasts, clear ports and trace back to ancient Egypt.
2025-12-31 10:09:29 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 11:02:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
The secrets of oil and the many products it has spawned; oil refinery.
2025-12-31 09:18:33 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 10:09:29 +0000 UTC(50m)
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A look at the ingenious and outrageous men who risked a lot for "black gold" and wealth.
2025-12-31 08:27:27 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 09:18:33 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Traces the history and evolution of the world's most important fossil fuel; without gasoline.
2025-12-31 07:35:04 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 08:27:27 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
A look at the many uses of acid; explosives; a sulfuric acid plant; vinegar.
2025-12-31 06:43:48 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 07:35:04 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Heavy metals like copper, uranium, and zinc are stored in National Defense Stockpile for America.
2025-12-31 05:51:13 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 06:43:48 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Metal has helped shape human progress since man first thrust copper into a fire and forged a tool.
2025-12-31 05:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 05:51:13 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
All life-forms and modern technology are built on a foundation of carbon.
2025-12-31 04:08:55 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 05:00:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Mankind makes use of lead, a versatile but toxic metal, for 6,000 years.
2025-12-31 03:17:36 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 04:08:55 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Copper conducts electricity, forms plumbing, creates roofs, and more as versatile metal.
2025-12-31 02:26:10 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 03:17:36 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Chrome hot rod; the Chrome Shop Mafia adds bling to truckers' big rigs; Arlington Plating Co.
2025-12-31 01:35:01 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 02:26:10 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made; making aluminum foil.
2025-12-31 00:43:46 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 01:35:01 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
How iron mined in Minnesota is made into steel; iron weapons revolutionize warfare.
2025-12-30 23:52:22 +0000 UTC→2025-12-31 00:43:46 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Geological history from the Stone Age to the Space Age; the moon.
2025-12-30 23:00:59 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 23:52:22 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Dirt transforms a stadium; special mud helps pros grip baseballs; mud wrestling in Hawaii.
2025-12-30 22:09:42 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 23:00:59 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
How wheat feeds the world; wheat becomes everything from bread to beer.
2025-12-30 21:18:22 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 22:09:42 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Cotton becomes the world's most ubiquitous fabric; a chronicle of its journey from dirt to shirt.
2025-12-30 20:25:39 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 21:18:22 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Tobacco farming from North Carolina harvest to Dominican cigars with public health discussions.
2025-12-30 19:33:52 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 20:25:39 +0000 UTC(51m)