From the crash of an El Al 747 into an Amsterdam Apartment buiding to the collapse of an Indiana road bridge due to inadequate support during construction, this episode explores 5 engineering disasters and the changes each one brought about.
The collapse of the walkways in a Kansas City Hotel, an LNG explosion in Ohio, the fatal effects of asbestos, the failure of the Yangtze River levees and the resulting floods, and a sinkhole near San Francisco all illustrate the need for better engineering practices.
Why planes crash and new aviation methods to reduce the number of future crashes.
A look at nuclear weapons development, the Cold War, and what present nuclear weapons exist.
An exceptional documentary on the 1979 meltdown at Three Mile Island, a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, PA
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 - Batteries
America protects its homeland with the most technologically advanced military force ever conceived. Although they fight 21st-century battles worldwide, the technology unleashed is directly descended from a war fought more than 140 years ago. This episode explores how the War between North and South was the first modern war, and the technology used in it was a quantum leap beyond any previous conflict. The machine gun, aerial reconnaissance, advanced battlefield medicine, instantaneous communication, ironclad ships, even the first aircraft carrier were all innovations developed during the Civil War. We'll investigate improvements in weapons, sea power, transportation, troop conveyance, food processing, medical care, and telecommunications. At a time when the nation was divided, Civil War technology revolutionized the way war was waged. Today, those technological milestones have evolved to ensure that our modern military has no equal in the world.
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.
History Channel - Modern Marvels - Deadliest Weapons
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