Modern Marvels

- Season 9

(2002)

Not every invention is a winner. Look at some of history's worst inventions including incompetent military weapons like the nuclear rifle and the Goliath tank. Also featured are the mechanical television, radiated medical products, and the odd looking Dymaxion house and car. Other cars featured where the Chrysler Turbine car and Ford's Nuclear powered car.

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A look at ancient and middle age technology used to break through fortifications. Includes ladders, trebuchets, torsion machines, battering rams, cannons, tanks, bombs, and misses.

A look at the various forms of junk and scrapyards as well as the technology that allows for recycling of old materials.

A look at the F-14 Tomcat jet fighter.

The history of engines and their modern day uses.

The history of the wheel and how it has impacted human life so ubiquitously.

The history of ice breakers and how they keep the lanes of commerce open during the frozen winter and the arctic open for science.

The history of how fire and ice inspired modern man to control the climate indoors. Includes how heating and air conditioning works in a home, a car, and airplanes. Also features clean rooms and air conditioning in space.

This program begins by tracing the development of cutting edges from obsidian flakes to the the latest high tech ceramic. Then the process of making swords and the design trade offs for their various purposes are examined in detail. Finally, the design and manufacture of axes and knives are contrasted with the more challenging demands of swordsmithing.

They are some of the largest machines on the planet. Go behind the scenes of how the largest front end loaders and excavators are constructed which includes some very large machines. Also featured is the crawler that moved NASA's rockets and space shuttles to the launchpad, a new cruise ship, windmills, and water pumps.

The history of drag racing from its humble beginnings to the modern innovations that routinely lead to speeds north of 300 MPH.

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Encouraged by Leo Szilard and galvanized by German success in achieving nuclear fission, the United States embarks on a crash program to build a nuclear bomb. Aided by many Jewish scientists who had fled Nazi Germany the project team successfully constructs three fuel production lines using different technologies and assembles three bombs. One bomb was tested in New Mexico and the others deployed against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Todays theme is The Tackle Box.

The gear used by amateur and professional hunters is profiled from various animal calls to weapons such as rifles, shotguns, and knives up through high tech equipment.

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A look at the United States Strategic Air Command since it was formed after World War II through the present. Includes a look inside the Cheyenne Missile Complex and the close calls that almost led to a nuclear war.

The history of gasoline and how it shapes our modern world.

The history of engines beginning with the steam engine through modern rotary and rocket engines are profiled.

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The technology of jet engines in commercial and military applications.

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The Chrysler Building in New York City is the subject.

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They were loud, fast, and during the 1960's and 1970's they were the most popular cars coming out of Detroit. Muscle cars were an American art form. See the history behind the GTO, to the Challenger, the Cutlass and many more.

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Journey beneath the earth to see why the construction of tunnels remains among the most difficult and dangerous engineering projects man can undertake.

This program examines the props that put the wow in James Bond films. They included the cars from Aston Martin, BMW, Lotus and Rolls Royce, the autogyro "Little Nellie", the Q boat and the incredibly popular rocket belt. Then visit a shop where the man on the street can buy the latest counter-espionage devices.

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