Forged in Europe’s shadow, Russian small arms were once dismissed as crude co...
Modern Marvels
Season 11 Episode 11: Howard Hughes Tech
A look into how the inventions of Howard Hughes and his companies changed the world.
23 SeasonsMar 31, 2004TV-PG44m6.5
A look into how the inventions of Howard Hughes and his companies changed the world.
Forged in Europe’s shadow, Russian small arms were once dismissed as crude co...
A look at the future of transportation, including Hydrogen power, advanced el...
The Arch is a civilization game changer. Explore the ways in which this humbl...
For 25 years, construction crews dug, blasted, tunneled, and bridged their wa...
Travel over land and sea to find more of the biggest, baddest, most audacious...
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 ...
The technology that makes desert living possible is featured including water ...
“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...
A look into how the inventions of Howard Hughes and his companies changed the...
A look at the pioneering aviation history of Edwards Air Force Base in Calofo...
The history of taxidermy includes a look at the use of humans as subjects.
From tub to toilet to toothpaste, here's everything you ever wanted to know a...
History's greatest killing machines including the machine gun, thermonuclear ...
The story behind the "doomsday clock" of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
From Pompeii to Pittsburgh. subterranean rooms help human beings to live comf...
From the Impressionist canvas to the Space Shuttle...from customized hotrods ...
When the most sophisticated machines fail, they do so horrifically, plunging ...
The story of rubber is more than tires, toys, gloves, and gum–it’s imbedded i...
When you tap your faucet does clean, pure water flow? Can your city supply en...
Cars that fly and drive themselves. Spiffy spy tools that see under doors and...
In a battle against the ferocious Atlantic or safe passage through waters whe...
In a battle against the ferocious Atlantic or safe passage through waters whe...
Looks into the lives of Private collectors and their toys
A paper-thin, wall-sized holographic television...a car that runs on processe...
The complete story of the ingenuity and the successes that made movies possib...
Under Athens' bustling metropolis, an unique engineering project transformed ...
Join us for a supersonic look at some of the most cutting-edge aircraft ever ...
Engineers and architects reveal what went wrong in five engineering disasters...
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...
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...
The history of dredging and its modern applications in maintaining and deepen...
Some 23,000 people walk through the Sears Tower’s domed entrances daily. 104 ...
The St. Lawrence Seaway is a monumental stairway in water, lifting massive sh...
Known as 'the mother road' Route 66 pioneered many of today's methods in road...
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 ...
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 ...
Trace the origins of this tasty drink from over 1,000 years ago. Discover how...
This program describes the production of sugar from sugarcane, sugar beets an...
Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking–whatever the crop, ...
What happens when the calculations of builders and engineers prove wrong and ...
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...
Engineering disasters featured include a plane crash in 1931, a Marine Electr...
Modern Marvels: Brewing, a one-hour History Channel documentary, traces the t...
Disasters profiled are a liquid natural gas explosion in Cleveland, the colla...
Bridges are the lifeline of Japan. Since the 1930s, the island nation has dre...
The history of custom car culture including hot rods and tuners.
Join us as we penetrate the history of the world’s most sophisticated tank–th...
More of our favorite snack foods are profiled. They include dog hunts, soft d...
Journey underground and backstage at the technological marvel that is Walt Di...
In this hour, death seeps out of the ground into a neighborhood sitting on a ...
When the men and women aboard a modern submarine hear the command to dive, th...
In this hour, we examine a massive oil tanker explosion that killed nine; a s...
The US capital boasts many memorials, but none with a more bizarre history th...
A series of construction errors causes a devastating flood that brings Chicag...
Extruders, molds, in-line conveyor belts. Are these machines manufacturing ad...
It comes in many deadly shapes and sizes, and the transportation of dangerous...
Battered and fried or simply raw–seafood is a popular dish, no matter how you...
Chaos in Guadalajara, Mexico, when the city streets explode; an airplane cras...
Doomsday threats range from very real (nuclear arsenals) to controversial (gl...
Examine more threats - both natural and man-made - that may endanger civiliza...
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Current Status: Returning Series
Network: History
Production Country: United States
Genres:Documentary, History
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