Modern Marvels - Season 13
Season 13
Episodes
Containers
Fire
Cotton
Engineering Disasters (18)
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.
Candy
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.
Weird Weapons: The Axis
Nature Tech: Avalanches
Engineering Disasters: New Orleans
Leather
Engineering Disasters (19)
The background into the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, two Boeing 737 crashes, a nuclear disaster near Los Angeles, and an oil storage facility.
Insulation
Hi-Tech Hitler
Shovels
Drilling
'80's Tech
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.
Ben Franklin Tech
Copper Kings
Heavy Metals: Copper, Uranium, Chromium, Lead, Nickel And Zinc
Money
BBQ Tech
High Explosives
Pirate Tech
Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives
World's Biggest Machines (5)
Super Tools: Skyscraper
Mummy Tech
Batteries
Water
Levees
Copper
Cola Wars
Building In The Name Of God
Shotguns
Renewable Energy
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.
Horsepower
Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
Stealth & Beyond: Air Stealth
Cities Of The Underworld
Ink
Distilleries (2)
Stealth & Beyond: Sea Stealth
Tomcat Sunset
Tobacco
World's Strongest (1)
Breakfast Tech
Wine
Supermarket
The AK-47
Snow
Harvesting (2)
Engineering Disasters (20)
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.
Nuts
Tea
Christmas Tech
Wind
Freight Trains
Season 12 Episode 36
They 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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