1. Poison
Aired: Jan 16, 2004Forged in Europe’s shadow, Russian small arms were once dismissed as crude co...
2. Car Tech of the Future
Aired: Jan 17, 2004A look at the future of transportation, including Hydrogen power, advanced el...
3. The Arch
Aired: Jan 22, 2004The Arch is a civilization game changer. Explore the ways in which this humbl...
4. More Nature's Engineers
Aired: Feb 4, 2004For 25 years, construction crews dug, blasted, tunneled, and bridged their wa...
5. World's Biggest Machines 3
Aired: Feb 12, 2004Travel over land and sea to find more of the biggest, baddest, most audacious...
6. The Butcher
Aired: Feb 13, 2004The 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 ...
8. Desert Tech
Aired: Mar 3, 2004The technology that makes desert living possible is featured including water ...
9. Sub Zero Tech
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...
11. Howard Hughes Tech
Aired: Mar 31, 2004A look into how the inventions of Howard Hughes and his companies changed the...
12. Edwards Air Force Base
Aired: Apr 7, 2004A look at the pioneering aviation history of Edwards Air Force Base in Calofo...
13. Taxidermy
Aired: Apr 14, 2004The history of taxidermy includes a look at the use of humans as subjects.
14. SWAT
Aired: Apr 21, 2004From tub to toilet to toothpaste, here's everything you ever wanted to know a...
15. Deadliest Weapons
Aired: Apr 28, 2004History's greatest killing machines including the machine gun, thermonuclear ...
16. The Doomsday Clock
Aired: Apr 30, 2004The story behind the "doomsday clock" of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
17. The Basement
Aired: May 12, 2004From Pompeii to Pittsburgh. subterranean rooms help human beings to live comf...
18. Paint
Aired: May 20, 2004From the Impressionist canvas to the Space Shuttle...from customized hotrods ...
19. Mega Movers
Aired: May 26, 2004When the most sophisticated machines fail, they do so horrifically, plunging ...
20. Bricks
Aired: Jun 3, 200421. A-10 Tankbuster
Aired: Jun 7, 200422. Rubber
Aired: Jun 9, 2004The story of rubber is more than tires, toys, gloves, and gum–it’s imbedded i...
23. City Water
Aired: Jun 15, 2004When you tap your faucet does clean, pure water flow? Can your city supply en...
24. Greatest Movies Gadgets
Aired: Jun 17, 2004Cars that fly and drive themselves. Spiffy spy tools that see under doors and...
25. Robots
Aired: Jul 6, 200426. The Cape Cod Canal
Aired: Jul 8, 2004In a battle against the ferocious Atlantic or safe passage through waters whe...
27. The Cape Cod Canal
Aired: Jul 21, 2004In a battle against the ferocious Atlantic or safe passage through waters whe...
28. Private Collections
Aired: Jul 30, 2004Looks into the lives of Private collectors and their toys
29. Future Tech
Aired: Aug 4, 2004A paper-thin, wall-sized holographic television...a car that runs on processe...
30. Edison Tech
Aired: Aug 11, 2004The complete story of the ingenuity and the successes that made movies possib...
31. Athens Subway
Aired: Aug 18, 2004Under Athens' bustling metropolis, an unique engineering project transformed ...
32. Mountain Roads
Aired: Aug 25, 2004Join us for a supersonic look at some of the most cutting-edge aircraft ever ...
33. Engineering Disasters 7
Aired: Aug 31, 2004Engineers and architects reveal what went wrong in five engineering disasters...
34. George Washington Bridge
Aired: Sep 1, 2004When 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...
36. Challenger Tank
Aired: Sep 6, 2004For 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...
38. Dredging
Aired: Sep 7, 2004The history of dredging and its modern applications in maintaining and deepen...
39. The Sears Tower
Aired: Sep 8, 2004Some 23,000 people walk through the Sears Tower’s domed entrances daily. 104 ...
40. St. Lawrence Seaway
Aired: Sep 15, 2004The St. Lawrence Seaway is a monumental stairway in water, lifting massive sh...
41. Route 66
Aired: Sep 17, 2004Known as 'the mother road' Route 66 pioneered many of today's methods in road...
42. World's Fastest
Aired: Sep 22, 200443. Police Pursuit
Aired: Sep 22, 2004Join 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 ...
45. Wiring America
Aired: Sep 29, 2004A 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 ...
47. Coffee
Aired: Oct 1, 2004Trace the origins of this tasty drink from over 1,000 years ago. Discover how...
48. Sugar
Aired: Oct 5, 2004This program describes the production of sugar from sugarcane, sugar beets an...
49. Harvesting
Aired: Oct 6, 2004Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking–whatever the crop, ...
50. German Small Arms of WWII
Aired: Oct 12, 2004What happens when the calculations of builders and engineers prove wrong and ...
51. The Auto Store
Aired: Oct 15, 2004Learn 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...
53. Engineering Disasters 17
Aired: Oct 20, 2004Engineering disasters featured include a plane crash in 1931, a Marine Electr...
54. Brewing
Aired: Oct 20, 2004Modern Marvels: Brewing, a one-hour History Channel documentary, traces the t...
55. The Lumberyard
Aired: Oct 26, 2004Disasters profiled are a liquid natural gas explosion in Cleveland, the colla...
56. DaVinci Tech
Aired: Oct 27, 2004Bridges are the lifeline of Japan. Since the 1930s, the island nation has dre...
57. Custom Cars
Aired: Oct 28, 2004The history of custom car culture including hot rods and tuners.
58. Hardware Store 2
Aired: Oct 29, 2004Join us as we penetrate the history of the world’s most sophisticated tank–th...
59. More Snackfood Tech
Aired: Nov 9, 2004More of our favorite snack foods are profiled. They include dog hunts, soft d...
60. Walt Disney World
Aired: Nov 10, 2004Journey underground and backstage at the technological marvel that is Walt Di...
61. Nature Tech: Hurricanes
Aired: Nov 16, 2004In this hour, death seeps out of the ground into a neighborhood sitting on a ...
62. Submarine Disasters
Aired: Nov 17, 2004When the men and women aboard a modern submarine hear the command to dive, th...
63. Engineering Disasters 14
Aired: Nov 23, 2004In this hour, we examine a massive oil tanker explosion that killed nine; a s...
64. Movie Theaters
Aired: Nov 24, 200465. Washington Monument
Aired: Dec 1, 2004The US capital boasts many memorials, but none with a more bizarre history th...
66. Engineering Disasters 15
Aired: Dec 8, 2004A series of construction errors causes a devastating flood that brings Chicag...
67. Snack Food Tech
Aired: Dec 16, 2004Extruders, molds, in-line conveyor belts. Are these machines manufacturing ad...
68. More Dangerous Cargo!
Aired: Dec 21, 2004It comes in many deadly shapes and sizes, and the transportation of dangerous...
69. Commercial Fishing
Aired: Dec 22, 2004Battered and fried or simply raw–seafood is a popular dish, no matter how you...
70. Ancient Discoveries (1)
Aired: Dec 22, 200471. Ancient Discoveries (2)
Aired: Dec 22, 200472. Ancient Discoveries (3)
Aired: Dec 22, 200473. Engineering Disasters 16
Aired: Dec 23, 2004Chaos in Guadalajara, Mexico, when the city streets explode; an airplane cras...
74. Doomsday Tech
Aired: Dec 28, 2004Doomsday threats range from very real (nuclear arsenals) to controversial (gl...
75. More Doomsday Tech
Aired: Dec 28, 2004Examine more threats - both natural and man-made - that may endanger civiliza...
76. The Computer
Aired: Dec 29, 2004