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This Department of Interior film captures Boulder Dam - better known as Hoover Dam - in the midst of its construction. See how the Colorado River flowed before, and after, the construction of what was then the [...]
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In this fiery documentary, Modern Marvels profile five of the world's deadliest weapons, focusing on the inventors, battles, and dark technology behind their lethality. Beginning with the deadliest bomb ever [...]
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Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of suitable polymers of the organic compound isoprene with minor impurities of other organic compounds plus water. Forms [...]
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A salt mine is a mining operation involved in the extraction of rock salt or halite from evaporite deposits. Salt is the most humble and precious of minerals. In Roman times, soldiers were sometimes paid with [...]
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An industrial shredder is a machine used for reducing the size of all kinds of material. Industrial shredders come in many different variations and sizes. Some examples of materials that are commonly shredded [...]
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Danny Wallace really wants a robot. He wants it to walk like him and talk like him. It's what scientists have been promising us for generations but it's a promise so far unfulfilled. Danny circumnavigates the [...]
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Documentary exploring the workings of three engineering companies, beginning with the only shipyard in Britain capable of building a new class of submarine, which has cost more than billion and is able to [...]
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Around the world and across the eons, gold stands as a symbol of power, wealth, and love. The quest for the yellow metal took men across oceans, into the depths of the Alaskan winter, and miles beneath South [...]
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Innovations in Coal Mining Take a trip inside a West Virginia coal mine and find out about the latest innovations in modern mining. Many people think of coal as an old technology--the fuel of the [...]
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Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS tells the fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who created everyday items, [...]
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To most of the world, the majestic Alps present a scene of wonder. But to European merchants and truckers, they present a troublesome and costly roadblock. Enter the ambitious AlpTransit Tunnel. [...]
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A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel spanning the relatively narrow and shallow Bering Strait between the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia and the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of [...]
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. It follows the Salyut, Almaz, Skylab and Mir stations as the ninth space station to be inhabited. The ISS is a [...]
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In this special, journey underground and backstage at Wald Disney World, a make-believe world spanning some 27,000 acres, brought to life by cutting-edge technology.Film Duration: 79 min [...]
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An awe-inspiring engineering feat, Dubai Palm Islands is definitely the largest artificial islands on earth. These Islands are three man made islands in the form of massive palm trees connected to the beaches [...]
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Cody R Wilson has figured out how to print a semi-automatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he's putting all the information online so that others will join him. This is a story about the [...]
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