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.
Engineering disasters highlighted include a coal mine in China, a crane collapse in Milwaukee, ground water contaminated with gasoline additives, and the hazards of radiation. Also profiled are the environmental disasters that plagued the Salton Sea in California and the Aral Sea in Asia.
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s13e05Candy2006-02-1417:00⌄
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2006-02-14 ·
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This program explains how some of the more popular candies are made starting with the raw ingredients through the production process. It all starts with chocolate then move on to red hots, jelly beans, salt water taffy licorice and some special candies just for adults.
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s13e06Weird Weapons: The Axis2006-02-2202:00⌄
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2006-02-22 ·
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s13e07Nature Tech: Avalanches2006-02-2502:00⌄
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2006-02-25 ·
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s13e08Engineering Disasters: New Orleans2006-03-0102:00⌄
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2006-03-01 ·
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s13e09Leather2006-03-0902:00⌄
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2006-03-09 ·
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s13e10Engineering Disasters (19)2006-03-2302:00⌄
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2006-03-23 ·
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The background into the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, two Boeing 737 crashes, a nuclear disaster near Los Angeles, and an oil storage facility.
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s13e11Insulation2006-04-2701:00⌄
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2006-04-27 ·
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s13e12Hi-Tech Hitler2006-05-0301:00⌄
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2006-05-03 ·
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s13e13Shovels2006-05-0401:00⌄
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2006-05-04 ·
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s13e16Drilling2006-05-1101:00⌄
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2006-05-11 ·
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s13e17'80's Tech2006-05-2416:00⌄
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2006-05-24 ·
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Technology from the 1980s is remembered, including early cell phones and CD players; the Sony Walkman; and personal computers. Also: comments by Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak; and a tour of the Computer History Museum in California.
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s13e18Ben Franklin Tech2006-05-2601:00⌄
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2006-05-26 ·
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s13e19Copper Kings2006-06-1301:00⌄
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2006-06-13 ·
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s13e20Heavy Metals: Copper, Uranium, Chromium, Lead, Nickel And Zinc2006-06-1501:00⌄
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2006-06-15 ·
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s13e21Money2006-06-2001:00⌄
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2006-06-20 ·
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s13e40Horsepower2006-06-2201:00⌄
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2006-06-22 ·
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s13e23BBQ Tech2006-06-2901:00⌄
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2006-06-29 ·
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s13e24High Explosives2006-07-0401:00⌄
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2006-07-04 ·
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s13e25Pirate Tech2006-07-1301:00⌄
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2006-07-13 ·
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s13e26Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives2006-07-2701:00⌄
Season 12 Episode 36They are the life blood of the American Economy, transporting 1.8 billion tons of freight each year, carrying everything from crops, to consumer electronics, cars to chemicals, not to mention coal and just about any other item that you can think of. This program will take you to what is considered the greatest freight transportation system in the world, the Union Pacific's Bailey yard–a pit stop for much of the nation's freight on its journey across the continent. We'll also explore the history of freight transportation from its humble beginnings as tramways in mines to complex system of rails that stretches to every corner of the nation.
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s13e39Renewable Energy2006-09-2016:00⌄
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2006-09-20 ·
16:00
Global problems require global solutions. Modern Marvels: Renewable Energy, a one-hour History Channel documentary, shows how the combined forces of wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, wave and tidal power are ready to move the world beyond oil, coal and other 19th Century technologies.
Join us for a second look at the big earth-moving machines used to tackle the most challenging jobs on, under, and off Earth! We'll ride on specialized behemoth dump trucks, delve below sea level to view dredging equipment, and leave the planet altogether to explore earthmoving equipment in space.
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s13e45Distilleries (2)2006-10-1201:00⌄
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2006-10-12 ·
01:00
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s13e49World's Strongest (1)2006-10-1901:00⌄
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2006-10-19 ·
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s13e47Tomcat Sunset2006-11-0202:00⌄
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2006-11-02 ·
02:00
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s13e48Tobacco2006-11-0902:00⌄
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2006-11-09 ·
02:00
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s13e52Supermarket2006-11-1602:00⌄
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2006-11-16 ·
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s13e50Breakfast Tech2006-11-2902:00⌄
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2006-11-29 ·
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s13e51Wine2006-11-3002:00⌄
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2006-11-30 ·
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s13e55Harvesting (2)2006-11-3002:00⌄
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Harvesting (2)
s13e55 ·
2006-11-30 ·
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s13e56Engineering Disasters (20)2006-12-0702:00⌄
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s13e56 ·
2006-12-07 ·
02:00
The story behind BP's Texas City oil refinery explosion in 2005, the 2001 crash of an American Airlines flight, and the Skylab space station.
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s13e54Snow2006-12-1102:00⌄
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2006-12-11 ·
02:00
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s13e58Tea2006-12-1402:00⌄
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2006-12-14 ·
02:00
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s13e59Christmas Tech2006-12-2102:00⌄
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s13e59 ·
2006-12-21 ·
02:00
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