TV Guide: Modern Marvels

Listing: Engineering Disasters 8

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 18 07:00 AM HIST Engineering disasters are recalled. Included: the collapse of Connecticut's Mianus River Bridge in 1983; the sinking of the Ocean Ranger oil rig in 1982; the 1999 crash of Learjet 35, carrying golf champion Payne Stewart; and the collapse of the South Fork Dam, causing the Johnstown, Pa., flood of 1889.

Listing: Whiskey

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Sat Nov 14 07:00 PM HIST A history of whiskey includes a tour of famous distilleries to see how the spirit is made. Manufacturers include Jack Daniels, Jim Beam and Canadian Club. Also: Jameson, in Ireland; and Glenlivet, in Scotland.

Listing: Engineering Disasters 15

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 13 01:00 PM HIST Engineering disasters are recalled. Included: a tunnel mishap; the explosion of a boiler on a riverboat; a building collapse; and an airplane tragedy.

Listing: Engineering Disasters 14

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 13 12:00 PM HIST Engineering disasters are recalled. Included: an oil-tanker explosion; a subway tunnel cave-in; a freeway-ramp collapse; and the crashing of a plane into an apartment building.

Listing: Engineering Disasters 10

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 13 11:00 AM HIST Engineering disasters are recalled. Included: the 1984 Union Carbide plant tragedy in Bhopal, India; the collapse of the parking garage at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, N.J., in 2003; and the explosion of a tanker carrying nonexplosive materials.

Listing: The Manhattan Project

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 11 01:00 PM HIST Chronicling the secret U.S. undertaking during World War II that produced the atomic bomb, which was used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war.

Listing: Tunnels of Vietnam

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 11 07:00 AM HIST Infantry soldiers in Vietnam who searched enemy tunnels are recalled.

Listing: Hoover Dam

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 9 01:00 PM HIST A chronicle of the construction of the world's largest dam built in the middle of the desert to subdue the river that fashioned the Grand Canyon.

Video: Nuts

Hulu — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 14: They can be as small as a pea or as large as a bowling ball. Nutritional, durable, and versatile, Nuts have been a staple of our diet since the dawn of time, and archaeological evidence places them among our earliest foods.

Video: The Lumberyard

Hulu — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 15: At the center of the American Dream is the home -- and at the center of its creation or renovation - is the Lumberyard. During America's earliest history, it was little more than a bustling warehouse by the docks or the railway center.

Video: Barbarian Battle Tech

Hulu — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 13: The bow that nearly brought down Rome, and the suspension system that revolutionized the chariot. It is the ingenuity of an outcast culture that transformed Europe.

Video: Failed Inventions

Hulu — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 11: A gun that fires rocket-powered projectiles underwater and in outer space, a television system that is nothing more sophisticated than spinning wheels and flashing light bulbs. These and more failed inventions will be showcased on Modern Marvels.

Video: Deep Sea Salvage

Hulu — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 10: Driven by the need for deep sea rescue and salvage capabilities, the US Navy Diving and Salvage Programs have gathered together a highly skilled team of divers, innovative scientists and engineers.

Video: The World's Biggest Machines

Hulu — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 9: Welcome to superlative central, the show with the biggest, baddest, heaviest, tallest, longest , loudest, meanest machines on the planet. The scale of these monsters is beyond belief, but we'll put it in perspective.

Video: Copper

Hulu — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 12: Copper brings music to our ears and beauty to our eyes. From the Stone Age to the Information Age this versatile red metal has enabled man to thrive.

Video: Tea

Hulu — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 7: The Modern Marvel episode about Tea features a visit to one of the largest tea-bagging factories in the world, the Lipton's plant in Suffolk, VA. Here, an astonishing million teabags an hour - 24 million a day since the operation is 24/7.

Video: Ben Franklin Tech

Hulu — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 6: You may know him as man of great wit and wisdom, who reminded us that a penny saved is a penny earned. But on Modern Marvels: Ben Franklin Tech, you will get to know Dr. Franklin as the late 18th Century's foremost scientist and inventor.

Video: Heavy Metals

Hulu — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 4: Heavy Metals are elements that occupy a select portion of the periodic table. They're so essential to America's economic and military might that they are stored in the National Defense Stockpile in case of all-out war.

Video: The Manhattan Project

Hulu — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 1: At 5:30 A.M., July 16, 1945, Scientists And Dignitaries Awaited The Detonation Of The First Atomic Bomb In A Desolate Area Of The New Mexico Desert Known Aptly As Jornada Del Muerto %u2014 Journey Of Death.

Video: Corn

Hulu — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 5: Corn is a chameleon that has found its way into over 3,000 different items. Discover how hundreds of tons of sweet corn make it from the field to a sealed can within mere hours at Lakeside Foods in Wisconsin.

Video: Extreme Aircraft

Hulu — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 3: Modern Marvels examines some of the most cutting-edge aircraft ever developed, from the X-1 that first broke the sound barrier, to the X-43 Scramjet that recently flew at Mach 7, faster than any jet has ever flown.

Video: The Autobahn

Hulu — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 2: Imagine a super-highway designed for speed, thousands of miles of roadway unhindered by limits of any kind where drivers can go as fast as their Porsches will carry them.

Video: Modern Marvels: Distilleries

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Modern Marvels takes us on a tour of breweries and talks to us about distilleries. See how a distiller makes their brew and how everything in the workshop happens on a day to day basis.

Video: Modern Marvels - Great Wall of China