Modern Marvels Essentials
Meet the loggers who started it all, and find out what happens on the journey from stump to sawmill.
Meet the loggers who started it all, and find out what happens on the journey from stump to sawmill.
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Mankind makes use of lead, a versatile but toxic metal, for 6,000 years.
Power-driven machines used to make metal parts help build the modern world.
Examines what happens when engineers get their calculations wrong.
A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made; making aluminum foil.
Koenigsegg CCR automobile; Shanghai Maglev train.
Maritime and engineering disasters: Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, Boeing crashes, nuclear meltdowns.
Engineering failures: sinkholes, landslides, airport collapse, plane crash, and ship sinking.
Hot and spicy items; Tabasco sauce made by McIlhenny Co. in Louisiana; McCormick spices.
Congressional mandate creates the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Giant, flame-breathing robots; floating fortress; diesel engine with 108,000 horsepower.
The hidden uses of grease inside giant machines; how grease is made in a New York factory.
The Hoover Dam is one of the seven engineering wonders of the modern world.
Vehicle assembly; building a home in a week; high-tech golf clubs; building demolition.
Meet the loggers who started it all, and find out what happens on the journey from stump to sawmill.
Lessons which point the way to a safer future.
Espionage has been used for at least the last 4,000 years; the episode focus on the last 100 years.
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald; the Buffalo Creek Dam disaster.
A toxic waste dump at Love Canal; the collapse of 7 World Trade Center; a nightclub fire in Boston.
Tropicana Casino garage collapse; Transvaal Aqua Park roof collapse.
DVD, CD, PDA, HDTV, PVR--used to be the ultimate in "gotta have it" gadgets.
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