Modern Marvels
Giant, flame-breathing robots; floating fortress; diesel engine with 108,000 horsepower.
Giant, flame-breathing robots; floating fortress; diesel engine with 108,000 horsepower.
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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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