Modern Marvels: Engineering
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Modern Marvels: Engineering

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  1. S1 E1 - Engineering Disasters 20

    5. desember 2006
    43min
    TV-PG
    Explore the series of events that led to one of the worst industrial accidents in the United States, look at what went wrong with NASA's Skylab in 1974, and examine the fire that destroyed a gas company in 2005.
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  2. S1 E2 - Size Matters: Pyramids: Majesty And Mystery

    22. mars 1997
    45min
    TV-G
    Standing majestically for centuries, great pyramids have long inspired and mystified scholars. Leading experts and historians explore the engineering genius that created some of the largest structures on the planet.
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  3. S1 E3 - Machu Picchu

    23. september 2003
    45min
    TV-PG
    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? Pleasure retreat? Fortress?
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  4. S1 E4 - Barbarian Battle Tech

    3. mars 2007
    44min
    TV-PG
    It's clear from the bow that nearly brought down Rome, the suspension system that revolutionized the chariot, and the axe that named a country that barbarians and technology aren't such a contradiction after all.
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  5. S1 E5 - Engineering Disasters 21

    24. oktober 2007
    44min
    TV-PG
    A steam pipe explosion rocks a summer day in Manhattan; Boston's Big Dig highway project suffers a major setback; rush hour in Minnesota turns deadly as a bridge plunges into the Mississippi River.
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  6. S1 E6 - Modern Marvels: Mt. Rushmore

    10. februar 1996
    43min
    TV-G
    Discover the incredible tale of how Gutzon Borglum created the world's largest sculpture by carving the faces of four U.S. presidents into the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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  7. S1 E7 - Modern Marvels: The Great Wall Of China

    21. juni 1997
    45min
    TV-G
    Winding 6,000 kilometers through undulating mountains, it is said to be visible with the naked eye from the moon. But who called for the Great Wall's construction? And how was it accomplished?
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  8. S1 E8 - Modern Marvels:: China's Great Dam

    12. september 2000
    45min
    TV-G
    Supporters see it as key to a new China, but critics voice a litany of concerns. Trace the story of China's Three Gorges Dam from ancient flood control to current controversy.
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  9. S1 E9 - Brooklyn Bridge

    30. september 1995
    46min
    TV-G
    Rare photographs and behind-the-scenes stories recall the politics, the struggles, and the tragedies that made possible an engineering feat of almost miraculous proportions.
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  10. S1 E10 - Building A Skyscraper: The Arteries

    6. september 2004
    44min
    TV-PG
    Learn how development of electricity and indoor plumbing made skyscrapers possible as the veins and arteries of the California Department of Transportation headquarters in LA are installed.
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  11. S1 E11 - Building A Skyscraper: The Human Environment

    6. september 2004
    45min
    TV-PG
    In hour three of a crash course on mega-skyscraper construction, take a closer look at the human element involved in the development of systems like air conditioning and pressurized elevators.
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  12. S1 E12 - Engineering Disasters

    21. februar 1999
    45min
    TV-G
    From the Colossus of Rhodes and Egypt's pyramids to the Hoover Dam and the Space Shuttle, mankind has celebrated the work of engineers. But what happens when their calculations prove wrong?
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  13. S1 E13 - Engineering Disasters 13

    15. november 2004
    44min
    TV-PG
    Death seeps out of the ground into a neighborhood sitting on a toxic waste dump; soldiers die due to software flaws during Desert Storm; the science of demolition is put to the test - and fails.
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  14. S1 E14 - Engineering Disasters 15

    29. november 2004
    44min
    TV-PG
    A deadly accident traps hundreds in a smoke-filled Alpine tunnel; three boilers explode on a Mississippi riverboat; a cockpit warning system malfunctions, causing a crash before the jetliner ever takes off.
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  15. S1 E15 - Engineering Disasters Of The 70's

    29. mai 2007
    44min
    TV-PG
    To err is human, but when the error results in the loss of life, it's a disaster. Learn about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Buffalo Creek Dam disaster, and the explosion of a tanker in Los Angeles harbor.
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  16. S1 E16 - More Engineering Disasters

    28. november 1999
    44min
    TV-G
    Throughout history the same builders and engineers that paved man's path out of the caves and into the modern world also caused some of mankind's worst disasters. Revisit notable disasters and their probable causes.
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  17. S1 E17 - Gothic Cathedrals

    18. mars 1995
    47min
    TV-G
    Built of stone, glass, persistence and prayer, gothic cathedrals are an epiphany of imagination and an articulation of joy, including Chartres, Notre Dame and the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
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