Fast-paced, fun and informative, Modern Marvels is The History Channel's signature series focusing on historical technology.
Fast-paced, fun and informative, Modern Marvels is The History Channel's signature series focusing on historical technology. The series has focused (among other things) on wonders of construction (Erie Canal, the Pentagon, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, the Big Dig), the machinery of war (nuclear submarines, tanks) as well as technology linked to the everyday (power tools, home tech, garbage).
Aired: Jan 16, 2004 Forged in Europe’s shadow, Russian small arms were once dismissed as crude co...
Aired: Jan 17, 2004 A look at the future of transportation, including Hydrogen power, advanced el...
Aired: Jan 22, 2004 The Arch is a civilization game changer. Explore the ways in which this humbl...
Aired: Feb 4, 2004 For 25 years, construction crews dug, blasted, tunneled, and bridged their wa...
Aired: Feb 12, 2004 Travel over land and sea to find more of the biggest, baddest, most audacious...
Aired: Feb 13, 2004 The history of how man has prepared meat since prehistoric time. Modern tools...
7. George Washington Carver Tech
Aired: Feb 18, 2004A look at the many inventions and the technology derived from them of George ...
Aired: Mar 3, 2004 The technology that makes desert living possible is featured including water ...
Aired: Mar 17, 2004 “Centcom” in Doha, Qatar represents everything a modern military command post...
10. The Great Bridge: 8 Miles of Steel
Aired: Mar 19, 2004In March 2003, embedded civilian correspondents rolled along with the U.S. mi...
Aired: Mar 31, 2004 A look into how the inventions of Howard Hughes and his companies changed the...
Aired: Apr 7, 2004 A look at the pioneering aviation history of Edwards Air Force Base in Calofo...
Aired: Apr 14, 2004 The history of taxidermy includes a look at the use of humans as subjects.
Aired: Apr 21, 2004 From tub to toilet to toothpaste, here's everything you ever wanted to know a...
Aired: Apr 28, 2004 History's greatest killing machines including the machine gun, thermonuclear ...
Aired: Apr 30, 2004 The story behind the "doomsday clock" of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Aired: May 12, 2004 The machines that helped build our world have been powered by hydraulics, a c...
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Aired: May 26, 2004 When the most sophisticated machines fail, they do so horrifically, plunging ...
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Aired: Jun 9, 2004 The story of rubber is more than tires, toys, gloves, and gum–it’s imbedded i...
Aired: Jun 15, 2004 When you tap your faucet does clean, pure water flow? Can your city supply en...
Aired: Jun 17, 2004 Cars that fly and drive themselves. Spiffy spy tools that see under doors and...
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Aired: Jul 8, 2004 In a battle against the ferocious Atlantic or safe passage through waters whe...
Aired: Jul 21, 2004 In a battle against the ferocious Atlantic or safe passage through waters whe...
Aired: Jul 30, 2004 Looks into the lives of Private collectors and their toys
Aired: Aug 4, 2004 A paper-thin, wall-sized holographic television...a car that runs on processe...
Aired: Aug 11, 2004 The biggest moving objects ever built by man, oil tankers dominate the world’...
Aired: Aug 18, 2004 Under Athens' bustling metropolis, an unique engineering project transformed ...
Aired: Aug 25, 2004 Join us for a supersonic look at some of the most cutting-edge aircraft ever ...
Aired: Aug 31, 2004 Engineers and architects reveal what went wrong in five engineering disasters...
Aired: Sep 1, 2004 When opened on October 25, 1931, the George Washington Bridge was the longest...
35. Building a Skyscraper: The Skeleton
Aired: Sep 7, 2004What does it take to construct a building that will cover an entire city bloc...
Aired: Sep 6, 2004 For two years, we’ve followed construction of the new California Department o...
37. World's Biggest Machines 4
Aired: Sep 7, 2004An enormous hydraulic machine press that stamps out a pickup truck's doors in...
Aired: Sep 7, 2004 The history of dredging and its modern applications in maintaining and deepen...
Aired: Sep 8, 2004 Some 23,000 people walk through the Sears Tower’s domed entrances daily. 104 ...
Aired: Sep 15, 2004 The St. Lawrence Seaway is a monumental stairway in water, lifting massive sh...
Aired: Sep 17, 2004 Known as 'the mother road' Route 66 pioneered many of today's methods in road...
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Aired: Sep 22, 2004 Join us for a high-speed look at police pursuits in an adrenaline-filled hour...
44. High Risk: Helicopter Linemen
Aired: Sep 28, 2004One of the most dangerous jobs in the world, electrical lineman who do there ...
Aired: Sep 29, 2004 A look at the equipment that was used in the past, present, and future to kee...
46. Firefighting: The Arson Detectives
Aired: Sep 30, 2004Meet crime fighters who take on fiery killers. In Houston, visit the site of ...
Aired: Oct 1, 2004 Trace the origins of this tasty drink from over 1,000 years ago. Discover how...
Aired: Oct 5, 2004 This program describes the production of sugar from sugarcane, sugar beets an...
Aired: Oct 6, 2004 Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking–whatever the crop, ...
Aired: Oct 12, 2004 What happens when the calculations of builders and engineers prove wrong and ...
Aired: Oct 15, 2004 Learn about the USA auto parts industry, from the history of The Pep Boys to ...
52. Secret Allied Aircraft of WWII
Aired: Oct 19, 2004Disasters investigated include: the 1984 Union Carbide debacle in Bhopal, Ind...
Aired: Oct 20, 2004 Engineering disasters featured include a plane crash in 1931, a Marine Electr...
Aired: Oct 20, 2004 Modern Marvels: Brewing, a one-hour History Channel documentary, traces the t...
Aired: Oct 26, 2004 Disasters profiled are a liquid natural gas explosion in Cleveland, the colla...
Aired: Oct 27, 2004 Bridges are the lifeline of Japan. Since the 1930s, the island nation has dre...
Aired: Oct 28, 2004 The history of custom car culture including hot rods and tuners.
Aired: Oct 29, 2004 Join us as we penetrate the history of the world’s most sophisticated tank–th...
Aired: Nov 9, 2004 More of our favorite snack foods are profiled. They include dog hunts, soft d...
Aired: Nov 10, 2004 Journey underground and backstage at the technological marvel that is Walt Di...
Aired: Nov 16, 2004 In this hour, death seeps out of the ground into a neighborhood sitting on a ...
Aired: Nov 17, 2004 When the men and women aboard a modern submarine hear the command to dive, th...
Aired: Nov 23, 2004 In this hour, we examine a massive oil tanker explosion that killed nine; a s...
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Aired: Dec 1, 2004 The US capital boasts many memorials, but none with a more bizarre history th...
Aired: Dec 8, 2004 A series of construction errors causes a devastating flood that brings Chicag...
Aired: Dec 16, 2004 Extruders, molds, in-line conveyor belts. Are these machines manufacturing ad...
Aired: Dec 21, 2004 It comes in many deadly shapes and sizes, and the transportation of dangerous...
Aired: Dec 22, 2004 Battered and fried or simply raw–seafood is a popular dish, no matter how you...
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Aired: Dec 23, 2004 Chaos in Guadalajara, Mexico, when the city streets explode; an airplane cras...
Aired: Dec 28, 2004 Doomsday threats range from very real (nuclear arsenals) to controversial (gl...
Aired: Dec 28, 2004 Examine more threats - both natural and man-made - that may endanger civiliza...
Aired: Dec 29, 2004
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Current Status: Returning Series
Network: History
Production Country: United States
Genres: Documentary, History
