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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.
Metadata: TVmaze · CC BY-SAEvery chapter of the story.
60m1. Containers
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60m2. Fire
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60m3. Cotton
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60m4. Engineering Disasters (18)
60 minEngineering 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.
60m5. Candy
60 minThis 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.
60m6. Weird Weapons: The Axis
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60m7. Nature Tech: Avalanches
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60m8. Engineering Disasters: New Orleans
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60m9. Leather
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60m10. Engineering Disasters (19)
60 minThe background into the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, two Boeing 737 crashes, a nuclear disaster near Los Angeles, and an oil storage facility.
60m11. Insulation
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60m12. Hi-Tech Hitler
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60m13. Shovels
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60m16. Drilling
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60m17. '80's Tech
60 minTechnology 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.
60m18. Ben Franklin Tech
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60m19. Copper Kings
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60m20. Heavy Metals: Copper, Uranium, Chromium, Lead, Nickel And Zinc
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60m21. Money
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60m23. BBQ Tech
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