
Modern Marvels
Glue history from Neolithic animal glue on skulls to modern adhesives lifting 6,000-pound trucks.

Glue history from Neolithic animal glue on skulls to modern adhesives lifting 6,000-pound trucks.

Giant-sized vacuums used in the Sept. 11th and Hurricane Katrina cleanup.

How batteries are made, what they power and what uses they may have in the future.

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

Technicians risk their lives in order to provide electric power and 21st-century communications.

Dreamers and schemers try an odd assortment of flawed ideas for inventions.

It's the place where one man's trash is another man's treasure; enter the world of the junkyard.

America's aging infrastructure is in danger of collapse due to corrosion.

Nikola Tesla creates the AC (alternating current) system of electrical power.

How distance, time, speed, weight and temperature are measured.

The history of bathing and showering; how modern plumbing systems work; history of oral hygiene.

Bathroom technology; Kohler makes a digitally controlled shower complete with steam, music and LED.

The biggest machines and their smallest counterparts; Airbus A380 and microjet.

The Arizona Cardinals' dome stadium and its movable lawn; Scotts Company.

Glue history from Neolithic animal glue on skulls to modern adhesives lifting 6,000-pound trucks.

Giant-sized vacuums used in the Sept. 11th and Hurricane Katrina cleanup.

How batteries are made, what they power and what uses they may have in the future.

Hunting technology evolves from the primitive to the digital.

Cut across the centuries to discover how the Egyptians arduously sawed stone.

It was a science first conjured amid the fiery ovens of ancient blacksmiths.