Modern Marvels
Season 13.

1. Containers

Air date: 2006-01-04 · 60 min

2. Fire

Air date: 2006-01-11 · 60 min

3. Cotton

Air date: 2006-01-18 · 60 min

4. Engineering Disasters (18)

Air date: 2006-02-08 · 60 min

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.

5. Candy

Air date: 2006-02-14 · 60 min

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.

6. Weird Weapons: The Axis

Air date: 2006-02-21 · 60 min

7. Nature Tech: Avalanches

Air date: 2006-02-24 · 60 min

8. Engineering Disasters: New Orleans

Air date: 2006-02-28 · 60 min

9. Leather

Air date: 2006-03-08 · 60 min

10. Engineering Disasters (19)

Air date: 2006-03-22 · 60 min

The background into the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, two Boeing 737 crashes, a nuclear disaster near Los Angeles, and an oil storage facility.

11. Insulation

Air date: 2006-04-26 · 60 min

12. Hi-Tech Hitler

Air date: 2006-05-02 · 60 min

13. Shovels

Air date: 2006-05-03 · 60 min

16. Drilling

Air date: 2006-05-10 · 60 min

17. '80's Tech

Air date: 2006-05-24 · 60 min

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.

18. Ben Franklin Tech

Air date: 2006-05-25 · 60 min

19. Copper Kings

Air date: 2006-06-12 · 60 min

20. Heavy Metals: Copper, Uranium, Chromium, Lead, Nickel And Zinc

Air date: 2006-06-14 · 60 min

21. Money

Air date: 2006-06-19 · 60 min

23. BBQ Tech

Air date: 2006-06-28 · 60 min

24. High Explosives

Air date: 2006-07-03 · 60 min

25. Pirate Tech

Air date: 2006-07-12 · 60 min

26. Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives

Air date: 2006-07-26 · 60 min

27. World's Biggest Machines (5)

Air date: 2006-07-26 · 60 min

28. Super Tools: Skyscraper

Air date: 2006-07-28 · 60 min

31. Mummy Tech

Air date: 2006-08-23 · 60 min

32. Batteries

Air date: 2006-08-03 · 60 min

33. Water

Air date: 2006-09-06 · 60 min

34. Levees

Air date: 2006-08-30 · 60 min

35. Copper

Air date: 2006-09-13 · 60 min

36. Cola Wars

Air date: 2006-09-07 · 60 min

37. Building In The Name Of God

Air date: 2006-09-18 · 60 min

38. Shotguns

Air date: 2006-09-17 · 60 min

39. Renewable Energy

Air date: 2006-09-20 · 60 min

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.

40. Horsepower

Air date: 2006-06-21 · 60 min

41. Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

Air date: 2006-09-26 · 60 min

42. Stealth & Beyond: Air Stealth

Air date: 2006-09-27 · 60 min

43. Cities Of The Underworld

Air date: 2006-09-21 · 60 min

44. Ink

Air date: 2006-10-04 · 60 min

45. Distilleries (2)

Air date: 2006-10-11 · 60 min

46. Stealth & Beyond: Sea Stealth

Air date: 2006-09-27 · 60 min

47. Tomcat Sunset

Air date: 2006-11-01 · 60 min

48. Tobacco

Air date: 2006-11-08 · 60 min

49. World's Strongest (1)

Air date: 2006-10-18 · 60 min

50. Breakfast Tech

Air date: 2006-11-28 · 60 min

51. Wine

Air date: 2006-11-29 · 60 min

52. Supermarket

Air date: 2006-11-15 · 60 min

53. The AK-47

Air date: 2006-07-28 · 60 min

54. Snow

Air date: 2006-12-10 · 60 min

55. Harvesting (2)

Air date: 2006-11-29 · 60 min