Modern Marvels
A look at the many uses of acid; explosives; a sulfuric acid plant; vinegar.
A look at the many uses of acid; explosives; a sulfuric acid plant; vinegar.
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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.
Explore american harvest methods; orchard management, fruit packing, corn fields, and more.
Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking-, there's a custom machine to harvest it.
Dredgers, mechanical beasts, clear ports and trace back to ancient Egypt.
The secrets of oil and the many products it has spawned; oil refinery.
A look at the ingenious and outrageous men who risked a lot for "black gold" and wealth.
Traces the history and evolution of the world's most important fossil fuel; without gasoline.
A look at the many uses of acid; explosives; a sulfuric acid plant; vinegar.
Heavy metals like copper, uranium, and zinc are stored in National Defense Stockpile for America.
Metal has helped shape human progress since man first thrust copper into a fire and forged a tool.
All life-forms and modern technology are built on a foundation of carbon.
Mankind makes use of lead, a versatile but toxic metal, for 6,000 years.
Copper conducts electricity, forms plumbing, creates roofs, and more as versatile metal.
Chrome hot rod; the Chrome Shop Mafia adds bling to truckers' big rigs; Arlington Plating Co.
A visit to a rolling mill where aluminum skins for jets are made; making aluminum foil.
How iron mined in Minnesota is made into steel; iron weapons revolutionize warfare.
Geological history from the Stone Age to the Space Age; the moon.
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