Modern Marvels

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10x1
Castles and Dungeons
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Ιαν 07, 2003
Some of the most imposing structures ever built, medieval castles withstood both bloody assaults and the test of time. Designed like machines with nearly every architectural detail .. show full overview
10x2
Trans-Siberian Railroad
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Ιαν 28, 2003
It's the longest, most expensive and complicated railroad ever built. Ordered by the Tsar in an effort to save his empire and unify his country at the twilight of the 19th century, the .. show full overview
10x3
Ice Road Truckers
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Ιαν 30, 2003
During the harsh winter of Canada's Northwest Territory, remote villages and work camps are cut off from the world. To keep them supplied, a tenacious group of long-haul truckers drive .. show full overview
10x4
Winter Warriors
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Ιαν 31, 2003
A look at how armies fight in extremely cold weather. Included: the Battle of the Bulge.
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Booby Traps
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Φεβ 04, 2003
All it takes to set off a booby trap is an unsuspecting victim lifting, moving, or disturbing a harmless-looking object. Booby traps continue to worry law enforcement; made from easily .. show full overview
10x6
Alcan Highway
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Φεβ 11, 2003
In the world of road making, the Alcan Highway is a feat worthy of comparison to the legendary byways of ancient Rome. Stretching 1,500 miles from British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska, .. show full overview
10x7
Million Dollar Guns
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Φεβ 19, 2003
Topic: valuable firearms. Included: Hitler's gold pocket pistol; Catherine the Great's pistols.
10x8
Twin Towers of the East
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Μαρ 04, 2003
Rising almost 1,500 feet high, the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia were named the world's tallest in 1996 by the Council on Tall Buildings. Connecticut architect Cesar Pelli blended .. show full overview
10x9
Mackinac Bridge
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Μαρ 05, 2003
Until recently, the Mackinac Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world. One of the top engineering marvels of the 20th century, the bridge spans the 4-mile wide straits of .. show full overview
10x10
Bullet Trains
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Μαρ 11, 2003
Traveling between 135 and 190 miles per hour with an astonishingly high safety record, bullet trains can be found throughout Europe, Japan, and on the U.S. eastern seaboard. How .. show full overview
10x10
Non-Lethal Weapons
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Μαρ 13, 2003
They stun, debilitate, immobilize--providing police and peacekeepers with options other than shouting or shooting. From the ancient caltrop--a multi-pointed contraption hurled by foot .. show full overview
10x12
Army Corps of Engineers
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Μαρ 18, 2003
Made up of soldiers and civilians, scientists and specialists in an enormous variety of fields, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was created over 200 years ago by Congressional mandate .. show full overview
10x13
Black Hawk: Night Stalker
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Μαρ 26, 2003
The Black Hawk remains the world's most advanced twin-turbine military helicopter.
10x15
Titanic Tech
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Απρ 01, 2003
Welcome aboard the luxury liner Titanic, the world's largest ship and pride of the White Star Line. Watertight compartments and a steel-plated hull render it all but unsinkable. Nearly .. show full overview
10x16
Coal Mines
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Απρ 02, 2003
Coal--the fuel responsible for more than half the electricity used daily. We unearth the amazing technological advances that have led to today's extremely efficient methods--from ancient .. show full overview
10x16
Secrets of the Acropolis
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Απρ 10, 2003
With the aid of 3-D animation, Modern Marvels explores the history and the construction of the Acropolis.
10x17
Machine Guns
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Απρ 30, 2003
A machine gun puts the power of 20 men into the hands of one. We review the history of the machine gun from the first Gatlings in the Civil War to today's high-speed automatic rifles.
10x19
Ball Turret Gunners
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Μάϊ 01, 2003
In war, certain missions demand the most and constitute much of the legends of bravery. Journey back to the Second World War when fearless airmen manned the B-17's belly guns--glass .. show full overview
10x19
U.S. Guns of World War II
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Μάϊ 08, 2003
An examination of the weapons that battled through surf and snow, dense jungle and choking dust...the guns of the American GI. Though WWII introduced instruments that pierced the dark .. show full overview
10x20
MiG 15
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Μάϊ 10, 2003
The MiG 15 was one of the 20th century's most feared high-performance weapons. When it first appeared in 1950, its high speed, lightning maneuverability, and intense firepower outclassed .. show full overview
10x21
T-34: Russian Victory
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Μάϊ 10, 2003
Stalin enlists the ideas of an American engineer to develop one of the most formidable tanks in history.
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Tank Crews
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Μάϊ 15, 2003
During WWII, American tank crews duked it out with Nazi Panzers in a high-explosive duel to the death. The German tanks had thicker armor and better guns than the mainstay of the U.S. .. show full overview
10x23
Harley-Davidson
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Μάϊ 21, 2003
From humble beginnings in the Davidson family garage to one of the world's most famous companies and a marketing juggernaut, Harley-Davidson is known for one thing American built .. show full overview
10x24
Torture Devices
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Μάϊ 22, 2003
For more than 3,000 years, emperors and generals, dictators and police, criminals, clerics, and even medical doctors have created and used a vast array of torture devices--everything .. show full overview
10x26
Cosmodrome
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Μάϊ 26, 2003
Cosmodrome is the story of Russia's "Crown Jewels"--the finest rocket engines in the world, built under conditions of absolute secrecy to land a man on the moon. It tells how, at the .. show full overview
10x26
The Exterminator
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Ιουν 03, 2003
They have been here for longer than us, and there are many, many more of them. They buzz, skitter and fly, chew, gnaw and occasionally draw blood. Lumped under the broad category of .. show full overview
10x27
High Voltage
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Ιουν 25, 2003
Look closely at those tall metal towers that span the country and you might see tiny specks climbing up the soaring steel like spiders on an enormous web. Meet the courageous linemen who .. show full overview
10x30
Dangerous Cargo
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Ιουν 25, 2003
Toxic traffic is everywhere! An average of 800,000 shipments of hazardous materials hit our highways and railways daily. From Wild West wooden crates filled with explosives to HAZMAT .. show full overview
10x29
Gunslingers
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Ιουν 26, 2003
During America's western expansion, a new breed of man arose--the gunslinger. Sometimes he wore a badge, sometimes he was an outlaw. But he always had a gun at his side, and the urge to .. show full overview
10x30
Engineering Disasters 4
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Ιούλ 02, 2003
Engineering disasters can result in personal tragedy, national humiliation, and economic ruin. But buried within their wreckage lie lessons that point the way to a safer future. The fire .. show full overview
10x31
Nature Tech: Tsunamis
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Ιούλ 08, 2003
Large-scale displacement of seabed sediment causes giant water walls.
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Logging Tech
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Ιούλ 09, 2003
When Paul Bunyan cried "Timber!", he never foresaw today's cutting-edge, controversial industry that feeds a ravenous, lumber-crazy world--a world striving to protect nature while .. show full overview
10x33
Breaking the Sound Barrier
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Ιούλ 16, 2003
For decades, the sound barrier loomed as an impenetrable wall against manned flight that buffeted planes with shock waves as they approached the speed of sound. Scientists thought the .. show full overview
10x37
4x4s
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Ιούλ 22, 2003
In this full-immersion journey through the world of maximum off-roading, learn what it's like to blow the carbon out of your system as we trace the history of the four-wheel drive .. show full overview
10x35
Car Crashes
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Ιούλ 23, 2003
In the mid-1960s, the US lost an average of 55,000 people yearly to car crashes. Since then, the number of cars on the road has doubled, but fatalities have decreased by nearly a third. .. show full overview
10x36
Sandhogs
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Ιούλ 23, 2003
Reviewing the impressive achievements and history of sandhogs, who challenge nature's awesome forces by driving tunnels through solid rock and sinking mud.
10x37
Terror Tech: Civilian
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Ιούλ 29, 2003
Inventors create cutting-edge technology to keep civilians safe.
10x38
Loading Docks
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Ιούλ 30, 2003
Loading docks serve as the connecting point between products coming from the factory to reaching store shelves.
10x39
Terror Tech: Military
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Αυγ 05, 2003
There is a new technological race afoot, and the goal is to protect against terror attacks. While countless devices are aimed at the consumer market, the military is also, and obviously, .. show full overview
10x40
Nature Tech: Tornadoes
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Αυγ 05, 2003
Meteorologists track and study tornadoes.
10x41
Military Movers
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Αυγ 06, 2003
Military planners move millions of soldiers and tons of cargo halfway around the world and into the thick of action.
10x42
Police Guns
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Αυγ 07, 2003
Police represent a thin blue line protecting ordinary citizens from hardened criminals. We'll look at the vast array of weapons that police officers across America have wielded for over 150 years in their endless fight to maintain law and order.
10x43
Terror Tech: Defending the Highrise
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Αυγ 12, 2003
New technology counters the threat of terrorism.
10x47
Bullets
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Αυγ 13, 2003
From "safe" bullets that stop hijackers but leave aircraft unscathed to bullets that chain-saw through steel and "smart" bullets computer-programmed to hit a target, this explosive hour .. show full overview
10x45
Aircraft Carrier
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Αυγ 15, 2003
U.S. aircraft carriers did not sink under the barrage of kamikaze assaults.
10x46
The Gunboats of Vietnam
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Αυγ 18, 2003
Armored gunboats prowl rivers of Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
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Metal
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Αυγ 19, 2003
They constitute the very essence of the modern world; the cadence of our progress sounds in the measured ring of the blacksmith's hammer. From soaring skyscrapers and sturdy bridges to .. show full overview
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Landmines
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Αυγ 21, 2003
A major battlefield weapon since the American Civil War and the stuff of nightmares ever since, the civilian toll from landmines remains immense. Inflicted by an enemy that can't be .. show full overview
10x52
Space Shuttle Columbia
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Αυγ 26, 2003
Combination rocket, spacecraft, and airplane, the space shuttle is the most complex vehicle ever built. Long before it ever flew, the shuttle was nearly scuttled due to political .. show full overview
10x50
Overseas Highway
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Σεπ 03, 2003
A spectacular roadway nearly 120 miles long, the Overseas Highway links mainland Florida with the Florida Keys, and contains 51 bridges, including the Seven-Mile Bridge. A boat was the .. show full overview
10x51
Machu Picchu
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Σεπ 24, 2003
The engineering marvel Machu Picchu sits perched on a ridge in the Peruvian Andes. Originally built by the Incas, this magnificent structure remains a mystery. Was it an observatory? .. show full overview
10x52
Smart Bombs
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Σεπ 30, 2003
Precision-guided munitions, smart bombs were the media buzz of the first Gulf War and a major military and political driving force of the second. But their apparent sudden celebrity is .. show full overview
10x60
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
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Οκτ 15, 2003
In the land of Mardi Gras, jambalaya, and zydeco, exits an engineering marvel called the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway that seems to go on forever. Two ribbons of concrete span the largest .. show full overview
10x54
Inviting Disaster: Three Mile Island
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Οκτ 21, 2003
They make our lives more comfortable, more rewarding, and more secure. They are the magical machines that have brought us to the edge of the new frontier of limitless possibilities. But .. show full overview
10x55
The Luftwaffe
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Οκτ 22, 2003
Goering's well-trained fliers fill enemy pilots with dread.
10x56
Panzers
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Οκτ 22, 2003
German tanks revolutionized military doctrine. Their speed and tactical usage, backed up by the Luftwaffe, helped create the Blitzkrieg (lightning war) that stormed over Europe and dominated battlefields.
10x57
Inviting Disaster: The Kursk
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Οκτ 28, 2003
The amazing machines of human invention most often do our bidding with uncomplaining proficiency. But when they go wrong, they exact a terrible wage. In August 2000, the Russian .. show full overview
10x66
FBI Crime Lab
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Οκτ 29, 2003
Modern Marvels explores the expensive, high-tech facilities the FBI uses at Quantico.
10x58
Inviting Disaster: Space Shuttles
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Νοέ 04, 2003
No program better symbolizes human mastery of machines than does the space shuttle. But the breakups of Challenger and Columbia revealed the program is tragically flawed. Based on the .. show full overview
10x68
Inviting Disaster: High Rise
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Νοέ 04, 2003
Based on the popular book, this episode explores historical building collapses--from ancient pyramids to the Cathedral at Beauvais to Kansas City's Hyatt Regency--and demonstrates that .. show full overview
10x69
Shipyards
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Νοέ 05, 2003
Shipyards are waterside construction sites where some of the largest tools ever built help create the biggest machines on earth.
10x71
Extreme Trucks
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Νοέ 12, 2003
Hop into the cab for the ride of your life as we examine extreme trucks, including: a jet truck that can travel 300 mph; the Baltimore Technical Assistance Response Unit's mobile command .. show full overview
10x61
Guns of Infamy
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Νοέ 17, 2003
Guns used in assassinations; guns of the American Revolution; guns of Wild West outlaws.
10x62
ET Tech
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Νοέ 25, 2003
In 2003, with Mars closer to Earth than it had been in 60,000 years, scientists launched three life-seeking planetary landers. If the long journeys prove successful, all should be hard .. show full overview
10x63
The Technology of Lewis And Clark
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Νοέ 27, 2003
Planning, craftsmanship, improvisation and sheer determination contribute to the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
10x64
B-52
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Νοέ 28, 2003
A history of the B-52 bomber includes its role in the Cold War and in the war on terrorism in Afghanistan.
10x80
Wheel Estate
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Δεκ 03, 2003
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10x65
Sports Cars
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Δεκ 04, 2003
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10x66
Tailgating
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Δεκ 06, 2003
At stadiums nationwide, thousands of football fans come together to show team spirit, eat incredible food, and join the community of tailgating. We journey around the U.S. to legendary .. show full overview
10x67
Failed Inventions
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Δεκ 10, 2003
Dreamers and schemers try an odd assortment of flawed ideas for inventions. Start with the cars--cars that fly, cars that float, cars with jet engines. That's just the tip of the .. show full overview
10x82
Technology of Kitty Hawk
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Δεκ 17, 2003
Two brainy bicycle makers...a remote North Carolina moonscape...and an impossible dream. On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright took wing at Kitty Hawk and flew--as none before .. show full overview
10x69
Egyptian Pyramids
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Δεκ 18, 2003
Constructed as tombs for the ancient pharaohs, over 100 pyramids remain in Egypt. Built during a span of well over 1,000 years, they stand as cultural and engineering marvels of .. show full overview
10x84
The Berlin Wall
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Δεκ 19, 2003
During the Cold War, the Berlin Wall stood as a forbidding barrier in an embattled world. Erected in August 1961, the Wall system stretched 103 miles through and around Berlin, locking .. show full overview
10x71
Toys
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Δεκ 23, 2003
All aboard the nostalgia express as we take a trip through the past to enjoy toys of our youth--the ones we can't forget and those that some of use never gave up! This is the real toy .. show full overview
10x72
Engineering Disasters 5
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Δεκ 30, 2003
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10x86 Φινάλε σεζόν
Engineering Disasters (5)
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Δεκ 30, 2003
Examines some of the most notorious engineering failures of recent years and asks what went wrong and what we learned from them. We take viewers to the southern coast of Louisiana, where .. show full overview
10x78
Early machine guns
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Οκτ 01, 2007
Evolution of rapid-fire guns. Included: use of machine guns in the American Civil War.

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