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Modern Marvels
Modern Marvels

Modern Marvels

—Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination on a grand scale, "Modern Marvels" tells the amazing stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who create everyday items, technological advancements and man-made wonders. From the Statue of Liberty to distilled spirits, and canals to bridges, no subject seems out of reach. Science, technology, electronics, mechanics, engineering, architecture, industry, mass production, manufacturing, and agriculture are just some of the many topics that have been covered during the long-running series.
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173 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Engineering Disasters 15
    The Big Dig
    Radio: Out of Thin Air
    Brewing
    Combat Training
    Physical Fitness: The Quest for Health
    Chemical and Biological Weapons
    The Maginot Line
    More Military Movers
    Built to Last
  • Engineering Disasters 15

    Chicago flood; Alpine tunnel fires; riverboat boiler explosion; building collapse; plane crash.
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  • The Big Dig

    The Massachusetts Central Artery/Tunnel Project, a.k.a. The Big Dig, is an impressive municipal construction project in U.S.; its objective to replace Boston's decaying highway infrastructure with 160 new highway miles.
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  • Radio: Out of Thin Air

    Once the revolutionary force that galvanized global communications without wires, radio linked the world a century ago; explore this enduring medium's long evolution from communication breakthrough to today's presence.
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  • Brewing

    Beer, one of the world's oldest beverages revered by Pharaohs and brewed by America's Founding Fathers, evolved from prehistoric times through ancient Sumeria, China, and Egypt to today's multi-billion-dollar global craft brewing industry.
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  • Combat Training

    Combat training throughout history, reviewing survival skills and psychological tools; from ancient Rome to World Wars One and Two, and how modern training is enhanced by advanced technology and computer simulation.
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  • Physical Fitness: The Quest for Health

    Traces physical fitness' role in the health of the individual and society; from ancient Greek gymnasiums, where pupils pumped up the mind as well as body, to 19th-century Muscular Christians, who saw exercise as an obligation to God.
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  • Some toys transform into valuable collectibles and become iconic classics; Adam sees how Play-Doh is created, visits the mecca of pinball manufacturing, learns how Slinkys keep springing back, and gets an inside look at Lionel trains.

  • Adam Richman visits the factory where the board game "Monopoly" is made; how "Masters of the Universe" action figures are making a comeback in a big way; how Mattel is using the latest technology to make new models of "Hot Wheels" come to life.
Modern Marvels

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Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination on a grand scale, "Modern Marvels" tells the amazing stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who create everyday items, technological advancements and man-made wonders. From the Statue of Liberty to distilled spirits, and canals to bridges, no subject seems out of reach. Science, technology, electronics, mechanics, engineering, architecture, industry, mass production, manufacturing, and agriculture are just some of the many topics that have been covered during the long-running series.

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  • Strange weapons of the past and present include Japanese ninja claws, microwavelike rays, lasers, robots, the "puke light," and a super slippery substance.
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