Modern Marvels
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, technological breakthroughs and man-made wonders.
Genre: Documentary, Special Interest
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Episode 13
The Telephone
aired: Mon, Jan 15, 2007
Episode 7
Tea
aired: Fri, Sep 4, 2009
The Modern Marvel episode about Tea features a visit to one of the largest tea-bagging factories in the world, the Lipton's plant in Suffolk, VA. Here, an astonishing million teabags an hour - 24 million a day since the operation is 24/7.
Episode 6
Ben Franklin Tech
aired: Wed, Sep 2, 2009
You may know him as man of great wit and wisdom, who reminded us that a penny saved is a penny earned. But on Modern Marvels: Ben Franklin Tech, you will get to know Dr. Franklin as the late 18th Century's foremost scientist and inventor.
Episode 5
Corn
aired: Wed, Aug 26, 2009
Corn is a chameleon that has found its way into over 3,000 different items. Discover how hundreds of tons of sweet corn make it from the field to a sealed can within mere hours at Lakeside Foods in Wisconsin.
Episode 4
Heavy Metals
aired: Wed, Aug 26, 2009
Heavy Metals are elements that occupy a select portion of the periodic table. They're so essential to America's economic and military might that they are stored in the National Defense Stockpile in case of all-out war.
Episode 3
Extreme Aircraft
aired: Wed, Aug 26, 2009
Modern Marvels examines some of the most cutting-edge aircraft ever developed, from the X-1 that first broke the sound barrier, to the X-43 Scramjet that recently flew at Mach 7, faster than any jet has ever flown.
Episode 2
The Autobahn
aired: Wed, Aug 26, 2009
Imagine a super-highway designed for speed, thousands of miles of roadway unhindered by limits of any kind where drivers can go as fast as their Porsches will carry them.
Episode 1
The Manhattan Project
aired: Wed, Aug 26, 2009
At 5:30 A.M., July 16, 1945, Scientists And Dignitaries Awaited The Detonation Of The First Atomic Bomb In A Desolate Area Of The New Mexico Desert Known Aptly As Jornada Del Muerto %u2014 Journey Of Death.
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