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Modern Marvels
Modern Marvels

Modern Marvels

—Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination on a grand scale, "Modern Marvels" tells the amazing stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who create everyday items, technological advancements and man-made wonders. From the Statue of Liberty to distilled spirits, and canals to bridges, no subject seems out of reach. Science, technology, electronics, mechanics, engineering, architecture, industry, mass production, manufacturing, and agriculture are just some of the many topics that have been covered during the long-running series.
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170 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Engineering Disasters 4
    Engineering Disasters 5
    Battlefield Engineering
    Bullets
    Engineering Disasters 12
    Strategic Air Command
    Engineering Disasters 8
    Engineering Disasters 10
    Engineering Disasters 15
    Engineering Disasters 16
  • Engineering Disasters 4

    Buried within the wreckage of engineering disasters lie lessons which point the way to a safer future.
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  • Engineering Disasters 5

    A misplaced oil rig spells disaster in Louisiana; West Virginia flood; Exxon Valdez oil spill; collapsing radio and TV antenna towers; freeways and earthquakes.
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  • Battlefield Engineering

    Perhaps the most important and yet least recognized aspect of warfare is battlefield engineering; battlefield engineers lay the groundwork, quite literally, for the battle to come.
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  • Bullets

    Targeting the historical trajectory of bullets, ranging from their origins in the 1300s as stones and lead balls to the "safe" and "smart" bullets of today.
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  • Engineering Disasters 12

    Denver International Airport baggage disaster; Texas A&M bonfire; M-4 Sherman tank; Milwaukee Water Treatment disaster of 1993; Skyline Plaza collapse.
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  • Strategic Air Command

    At the height of the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command controls thousands of nuclear weapons, planes and missiles.
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Season 202 of 2 Episodes

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  • Adam Richman visits the factory where the board game "Monopoly" is made; how "Masters of the Universe" action figures are making a comeback in a big way; how Mattel is using the latest technology to make new models of "Hot Wheels" come to life.
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Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination on a grand scale, "Modern Marvels" tells the amazing stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who create everyday items, technological advancements and man-made wonders. From the Statue of Liberty to distilled spirits, and canals to bridges, no subject seems out of reach. Science, technology, electronics, mechanics, engineering, architecture, industry, mass production, manufacturing, and agriculture are just some of the many topics that have been covered during the long-running series.

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  • Engineering disasters exact costs in lives when design flaws fail projects; examine the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Idaho's first nuclear accident, Soyuz 11 deaths, Texas Tower destruction, and NASA's Mars mission losses.

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