Trucks transport a staggering 70 percent of all the nation's goods looking at the amazingly diverse world of American trucks and the colorful men and women who drive them.
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How superhighways move millions of people every year 20-lane project in Houston China's 28,000-mile National Trunk Highway System High-Five interchange in Dallas the anatomy of a traffic jam.
Trucks transport a staggering 70 percent of all the nation's goods looking at the amazingly diverse world of American trucks and the colorful men and women who drive them.
The world's largest concrete dam, and the largest concrete structure in the world, lies on the Columbia River in the State of Washington built in 1931, it is also one of the largest hydroelectric power plants in the world.
How iron mined in Minnesota is made into steel iron weapons revolutionize warfare military metallurgists customize weapons and demonstrate their firepower iron magnets.
The history of civilization could easily be measured in terms of our ability to make, use, and improve tools episode examines power tool industry, which is booming thanks to more powerful, lighter, and quieter cordless tools.
It's time to slice and dice take a cutting-edge look at the most amazing blades in the world, from the legendary sword of the samurai warrior with an edge sharp enough to sever a man's arm in a single swipe.
Pyroman the life-size mannequin is exposed to more than 1,000 degrees F steelworkers suit up to beat refinery heat coffee makers and hair dryers malfunction at Underwriters Laboratories a friction lab tests aircraft and race-car brakes.
Each year in the U.S., 280 million hens lay 80 billion eggs, one of the world's most affordable sources of protein charting an egg's journey from the henhouse to the breakfast table how powdered eggs are manufactured.
Making breakfast on the USS John C. Stennis.
Today's cowboys blend Old West traditions with modern technology examine 19th-century cattle industry boom, Spanish-derived saddles and ropes, barbed wire revolution, and modern computer chips, DNA evidence, and artificial insemination techniques.
A look up at the symbol of the American Century - the skyscraper the construction of which is a triumph of engineering and capitalism climb to the top of the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Sears Tower, and World Trade Center.
Big machines span NASA's world's biggest wind tunnel and flight simulator, Joy Mining's Continuous Miner underground machine, London Eye's 443-foot observation wheel, IMAX's largest film technology, and Claas Cougar world's biggest lawnmower.
Giant robots work factory floors and outer space floating fortresses house 6,000 military personnel with length matching Empire State Building's height diesel engines produce 108,000 horsepower in audacious engineering feats worldwide.
Doomsday threats range from very real, nuclear arsenals, to controversial, global warming, to futuristic - nanotechnology, cyborgs, and robots.
Examines the history of radar, focusing on its role in the Allies' victory in World War II, from the Chain Home Network, rudimentary radar towers that ringed England's eastern coast, to the role of Boston's MIT in developing an English secret.
Entries and exits world's tallest doors at the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center a company that makes blast doors and bulletproof doors fabricating doors for homes.
Making breakfast on the USS John C. Stennis.
Today's cowboys blend Old West traditions with modern technology examine 19th-century cattle industry boom, Spanish-derived saddles and ropes, barbed wire revolution, and modern computer chips, DNA evidence, and artificial insemination techniques.
A look up at the symbol of the American Century - the skyscraper the construction of which is a triumph of engineering and capitalism climb to the top of the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Sears Tower, and World Trade Center.
Big machines span NASA's world's biggest wind tunnel and flight simulator, Joy Mining's Continuous Miner underground machine, London Eye's 443-foot observation wheel, IMAX's largest film technology, and Claas Cougar world's biggest lawnmower.
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