How padlocks and combination locks are made biometric locks cracking open a bank vault how the government plans to keep people away from a nuclear waste site for the next 10,000 years.
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Nuclear research ranges from well-known applications, such as bombs and reactors, to little-known uses in medicine, food preparation, and radiation detection. It's also spawned ancillary technologies to store nuclear waste and clean up accidents.
Adam Richman travels through time with special security clearance to a U.S. Army lab, Adam gets a glimpse into the cutting-edge food research that's taking a quantum leap into the future.
An exciting spin through the history of the casino going behind the neon lights, free drinks, and 24-hour gambling to see how the gaming industry has evolved from a simple house of cards to a high-tech multi-billion dollar industry.
Adam Richman visits America's oldest candy store to see how it crafts decadent chocolate treats how Theo Chocolate produces up to 2.5 million pounds of chocolate per year.
Adam Richman visits the legendary Turkey Hill Dairy to see how they make their famous frosty treat for the masses sneak a peek into Dreyer's flavor development process.
Tea ranks as world's second most popular drink with ancient origins explore Lipton's Suffolk plant producing teabags, Charleston Plantation's cultivation, Boston Tea Party history, Clipper Ships bringing Chinese tea, and modern herbal varieties.
From cheddar to brie, Parmesan to blue, take a look at both ancient techniques and new technologies behind some of the world's most popular cheeses discover how cheese is made.
How padlocks and combination locks are made biometric locks cracking open a bank vault how the government plans to keep people away from a nuclear waste site for the next 10,000 years.
Explore basements from Pompeii to Pittsburgh ancient Hittites, Phrygians, and Persians carved subterranean rooms for storage and shelter, Greeks and Romans valued them, Renaissance architects hid kitchens there, and Colonial Americans expanded use.
We examine more threats--both natural and manmade--that may endanger civilization from the far reaches of space to tiny viruses, doomsday sources are many.
World War I is the first lethal combination of Industrial Age technology and war on a large scale.
From the earliest recorded account of an amputation and subsequent prosthesis in ancient Hindu writings, to today's use of plastics and space-age materials, we chronicle the long history of prosthetic devices.
A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made aluminum is used to make reflective mirrors for telescopes at NASA the process of making aluminum foil why aluminum baseball bats are better than wood.
Heavy metals occupy select periodic table portions and are essential to America's economic and military might, stored in National Defense Stockpile vital metals include copper, uranium, lead, zinc, nickel, and corrosion-resistant superalloys.
After an oxygen tank explodes, scientists and engineers race against time to save the crew of crippled spacecraft Apollo 13 the mission, which nearly ended in tragedy, becomes a resounding success and exemplifies NASA's finest hour.
How padlocks and combination locks are made biometric locks cracking open a bank vault how the government plans to keep people away from a nuclear waste site for the next 10,000 years.
Explore basements from Pompeii to Pittsburgh ancient Hittites, Phrygians, and Persians carved subterranean rooms for storage and shelter, Greeks and Romans valued them, Renaissance architects hid kitchens there, and Colonial Americans expanded use.
We examine more threats--both natural and manmade--that may endanger civilization from the far reaches of space to tiny viruses, doomsday sources are many.
World War I is the first lethal combination of Industrial Age technology and war on a large scale.
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