
Modern Marvels
A toxic waste dump at Love Canal; the collapse of 7 World Trade Center; a nightclub fire in Boston.

A toxic waste dump at Love Canal; the collapse of 7 World Trade Center; a nightclub fire in Boston.

Denver International Airport baggage disaster; Texas A&M bonfire; M-4 Sherman tank.

Sinkholes; asbestos; Yangtze flood; walkway collapse.

Tropicana Casino garage collapse; Transvaal Aqua Park roof collapse.

A misplaced oil rig spells disaster in Louisiana; West Virginia flood.

Examines what happens when engineers get their calculations wrong.

Watertight compartments and a steel-plated hull buoyed Titanic.

Every 15 minutes, Americans insert more than 3.5 million coins into machines.

Maritime and engineering disasters: Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, Boeing crashes, nuclear meltdowns.

Milwaukee ironworkers' fall, coal mine explosion, radiation exposure, and sea disasters.

Engineering failures: sinkholes, landslides, airport collapse, plane crash, and ship sinking.

Underground explosion; dam collapse; school collapse; giant oil spill.

Chicago flood; Alpine tunnel fires; riverboat boiler explosion; building collapse; plane crash.

A toxic waste dump at Love Canal; the collapse of 7 World Trade Center; a nightclub fire in Boston.

Denver International Airport baggage disaster; Texas A&M bonfire; M-4 Sherman tank.

Sinkholes; asbestos; Yangtze flood; walkway collapse.

Tropicana Casino garage collapse; Transvaal Aqua Park roof collapse.

A misplaced oil rig spells disaster in Louisiana; West Virginia flood.

Examines what happens when engineers get their calculations wrong.

Watertight compartments and a steel-plated hull buoyed Titanic.