Modern Marvels - Batteries
Documentary from History Channel about the Alaskan Pipeline a megaproject built at the heights of the 70's oil crisis through unforgiving terrain and terrible weather conditions in the Arctic circle.
Modern Marvels History Channel - Bread Documentary USA Season 15 Narrator: Bread, the staff of life. Whether baked, fried or boiled it's the basic source of nourishment for half the world. Grill it, roast it, slice it, toast it, it's a wonder that two ingredients, flour and water, can be transformed into so many shapes and tastes. White bread may still be king in the U.S., but other breads are closing in. Now, the untold story of Bread, on Modern Marvels
History Channel - Modern Marvels - Deadliest Weapons
The sixties were one groovy decade. “Modern Marvels: 60’s Tech” will take you on a wild ride of the technological happenings that helped shape the decade. Television got a whole lot better. We’ll see how color replaced black and white. We’ll explore the advent of satellite broadcasting. And we’ll look at the camera that beamed mans’ first steps on the moon. It was a decade of radical changes—the transistor radio became your personal listening device, computers became less intimidating, dialing your telephone now meant pressing buttons, and your watch became a piece of electronics. We’ll see how all that happened. We’ll take the Mustang, the ultimate 60s car, for a spin. For fun, we’ll get inside slot car racing, the etch-a-sketch, the superball, and lava lamps. The decade gave us quite a technological rush-- with the introduction of concert sound, psychedelic light shows and the birth of the rock festival. So this time around, just turn on and tune in, no need to drop out.
Modern Marvels - Empire State Building The Empire State building rose to become the world's tallest man-made structure at a time when dreams were in short supply. Planned during the 1920s, construction was almost grounded by the Depression until the "Cathedral of Dreams" came to symbolize the indomitable American spirit. "Two stories a day" became the mission. Up went the rivets, the steel and the fearless men. In just two years the miracle of engineering was finished, justifying a nation's belief in itself. Here is the colorful story of this beloved building, including the innovations it inspired, and its enduring popularity today. From the first plans to the final rivet, explore the incredible story of the EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
It's Pepsi, it's Coca Cola, let's get it on......
The Manhattan Project” is an important episode documenting the history of the atomic bomb and of President Truman’s use of this weapon twice to end World War II.The film shows the Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and even Hanford, Washington facilities I.The actual history starts out in 1939 with a letter for FDR proposing the possibility of the device. Many of America’s best scientists (including Fermi and Zolard) were assembled in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to develop the weapon, and the most controversial and perhaps psychologically unstable was Oppenheimer. At the same time, enormous facilities were built in Oak Ridge, TN to separate and produce the necessary components.President Truman was told that he might be impeached if he didn’t use the weapons.Hiroshima and Nagasaki were left untouched by conventional weapons in order to be “available” for nuclear weapons.
History Channel Documentary Modern Marvels takes a trip back in time, all the way back to the 1980s, to examine some of the most popular gadgets and fads. This includes Sony's Walkman, Rubik's Cube, DeLorean DMC-12, and of course the microchip which changed electronics forever : It was a totally radical decade that realized the transition from the industrial age to the information age. An era of awesome acronyms, CD, MTV, VCR, IMB, PC. A technological paradise dedicated to entertainment and ergonomics, courtesy of Silicon Valley. Hold on tight because we’re going back to that future. Now, 80’s Tech, on Modern Marvels
The picture/sound quality kinda sucks........Modern Marvels: Torture Devices
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