From elaborate elite training facilities to GPS-guided air drops, to revolutionary high-tech tents and fire-retardant uniforms, the episode explores the science and technology of building, operating and protecting a base in a war zone.
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The Baldwin Hills dam collapse in Los Angeles a wing separates from a passenger plane a freighter slams into a Florida bridge the Northridge earthquake of 1994.
Examine tragedies including 1999 Milwaukee ironworkers' 200-foot fall, China's Sunjiwan coal mine explosion, fluoroscope x-ray radiation exposure in shoe stores, California's Salton Sea drainage issues, and Soviet Aral Sea irrigation disaster.
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, submerging 80% underwater due to levee and pumping system failures investigate engineering causes behind Superdome nightmare, major escape route design flaws, and Louisiana coastline sinking issues.
From ancient solutions to the development of modern water and sewer services, plumbing helped to make civilization possible.
Many rivers quenched the thirst of millions in the American west and around the world without these aqueducts, some of the earth's largest cities would turn into gigantic ghost towns.
Amazing, ingenious and ultra-sturdy shelters, machines, containers, and materials help to ensure the continuation of society.
Copper transports electricity, water, and heat while being essential for survival yet killing microbes this versatile metal conducts electricity globally, revolutionizes electronics, forms plumbing pipes, creates beautiful roofs, and more.
From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper we'll see the 21st Century's cutting-edge "green" technologies in action.
The Baldwin Hills dam collapse in Los Angeles a wing separates from a passenger plane a freighter slams into a Florida bridge the Northridge earthquake of 1994.
Examine tragedies including 1999 Milwaukee ironworkers' 200-foot fall, China's Sunjiwan coal mine explosion, fluoroscope x-ray radiation exposure in shoe stores, California's Salton Sea drainage issues, and Soviet Aral Sea irrigation disaster.
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, submerging 80% underwater due to levee and pumping system failures investigate engineering causes behind Superdome nightmare, major escape route design flaws, and Louisiana coastline sinking issues.
From ancient solutions to the development of modern water and sewer services, plumbing helped to make civilization possible.
Many rivers quenched the thirst of millions in the American west and around the world without these aqueducts, some of the earth's largest cities would turn into gigantic ghost towns.
Amazing, ingenious and ultra-sturdy shelters, machines, containers, and materials help to ensure the continuation of society.
Copper transports electricity, water, and heat while being essential for survival yet killing microbes this versatile metal conducts electricity globally, revolutionizes electronics, forms plumbing pipes, creates beautiful roofs, and more.
From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper we'll see the 21st Century's cutting-edge "green" technologies in action.
How distance, time, speed, weight and temperature are measured weighing a whale how a speedometer works the National Institute of Standards and Technology measuring tapes made by Stanley Tools.
Mechanical feats of strength by the world's most-powerful elevators, a monster mine machine, the world's strongest mountain bike, a space vehicle transporter and an unbeatable blender.
Get behind the wheel and take control of some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet these aren't the average vehicles and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else.
The celebration of Halloween has become a $6 billion economic powerhouse the annual Halloween Haunt at Knott's Berry Farm the production of monster makeup, masks and costumes carving pumpkins making fake blood haunted house.
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