
Modern Marvels
Power-driven machines used to make metal parts help build the modern world.

Power-driven machines used to make metal parts help build the modern world.

For over a century, the U.S. steel industry is a powerful symbol of the nation's industrial might.

Mined from the earth and panned from streams, gold serves as a symbol of power, wealth and love.

Quarries use dynamite to extract rock, civilization's raw material for construction.

The controversial logging industry topples 4 billion trees annually.

Humans adapt to extreme environments from desert to space and physiological responses to danger.

The assembly and surprising history behind the airboat; a big-tired swamp buggy; local delicacies.

Inventions for holding off a global warming meltdown include giant solar energy towers.

New technologies such as carbon sequestration and bioremediation combat environmental crises.

George Washington Carver invented 300 peanut uses and developed crop rotation at Tuskegee Institute.

California's date palm trees; Wisconsin cranberry marshes; Pennsylvania's mushroom farms.

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.

Power-driven machines used to make metal parts help build the modern world.

For over a century, the U.S. steel industry is a powerful symbol of the nation's industrial might.

Mined from the earth and panned from streams, gold serves as a symbol of power, wealth and love.

Quarries use dynamite to extract rock, civilization's raw material for construction.

The controversial logging industry topples 4 billion trees annually.

Humans adapt to extreme environments from desert to space and physiological responses to danger.