Temporada 10
Modern Marvels
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10x01 Episodio 1
Trans-Siberian Railroad
01 de enero del 2003
44 min
It’s the longest, most expensive and complicated railroad ever built. Ordered by the Czar in an effort to save his empire and unify his country at the twilight of the 19th century, the Trans-Siberi...
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10x02 Episodio 2
Castles & Dungeons
07 de enero del 2003
44 min
Some of the most imposing structures ever built, medieval castles withstood both bloody assaults and the test of time. Designed like machines with nearly every architectural detail devoted to defen...
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10x03 Episodio 3
Ice Road Truckers
30 de enero del 2003
44 min
Based on the book Denison’s Ice Road by Edith Iglauer, the episode detailed the treacherous job of driving trucks over frozen lakes, also known as ice roads, in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Afte...
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10x04 Episodio 4
Winter Warriors
31 de enero del 2003
44 min
Traces the story of the U.S. Army’s legendary 10th Mountain Division. They were formed after WWII began, specifically to fight in high, rugged mountain conditions. After training in the Colorado Ro...
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10x05 Episodio 5
Booby Traps
04 de febrero del 2003
44 min
All it takes to set off a booby trap is an unsuspecting victim lifting, moving, or disturbing a harmless-looking object. Booby traps continue to worry law enforcement; made from easily acquired ite...
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10x06 Episodio 6
The Alcan Highway
11 de febrero del 2003
44 min
Today, vacationers travel from British Columbia north through the Yukon Pass on their way to Fairbanks, Alaska, thanks to one 2-lane roadway, the 1,522-mile long Alaska Highway. A bit treacherous i...
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10x07 Episodio 7
Twin Towers of the East
04 de marzo del 2003
44 min
Rising almost 1,500 feet high, the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia were named the world’s tallest in 1996 by the Council on Tall Buildings. Connecticut architect Cesar Pelli blended traditional Is...
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10x08 Episodio 8
The Mackinac Bridge
05 de marzo del 2003
44 min
Until recently, the Mackinac Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world. One of the top engineering marvels of the 20th century, the bridge spans the 4-mile wide straits of Mackinac, whe...
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10x09 Episodio 9
Bullet Trains
11 de marzo del 2003
44 min
Traveling between 135 and 190 miles per hour with an astonishingly high safety record, bullet trains can be found throughout Europe, Japan, and on the US eastern seaboard. How high-speed trains are...
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10x10 Episodio 10
Non-Lethal Weapons
13 de marzo del 2003
44 min
They stun, debilitate, immobilize–providing police and peacekeepers with options other than shouting or shooting. From the ancient caltrop–a multi-pointed contraption hurled by foot soldiers into a...
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10x12 Episodio 12
Army Corps of Engineers
18 de marzo del 2003
44 min
Made up of soldiers and civilians, scientists and specialists in an enormous variety of fields, the US Army Corps of Engineers was created over 200 years ago by Congressional mandate to respond, in...
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10x13 Episodio 13
Black Hawk: Night Stalker
26 de marzo del 2003
44 min
For over 20 years, the Black Hawk has been the U.S. Army’s front-line utility helicopter for air assault, air cavalry, and medical evacuation. The Black Hawk remains today the world’s most advanced...
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10x14 Episodio 14
Japanese Guns of WWII
26 de marzo del 2003
44 min
As Japan bombed its way into the Pacific during WWII, Imperial soldiers carried pride, a sense of invincibility, and an arsenal of clumsy and outdated weapons. Convinced that the tactics and tools ...
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10x15 Episodio 15
Titanic Tech
01 de abril del 2003
44 min
Welcome aboard the luxury liner Titanic, the world’s largest ship and pride of the White Star Line. Watertight compartments and a steel-plated hull render it all but unsinkable. Nearly every techno...
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10x16 Episodio 16
Coal Mines
02 de abril del 2003
44 min
Coal–the fuel responsible for more than half the electricity used daily. We unearth the amazing technological advances that have led to today’s extremely efficient methods–from ancient techniques t...
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10x17 Episodio 17
Secrets of the Acropolis
10 de abril del 2003
44 min
With a thrilling combination of dramatic reconstructions and 3-D animation, we step back in time to the Golden Age of Greece and the birth of democracy, to an era of unparalleled human creativity t...
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10x19 Episodio 19
Ball Turret Gunners
01 de mayo del 2003
44 min
In war, certain missions demand the most and constitute much of the legends of bravery. Journey back to the Second World War when fearless airmen manned the B-17′s belly guns–glass bubbles that at ...
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10x21 Episodio 21
MiG 15
10 de mayo del 2003
44 min
After World War I, Russia began building its most prolific aircraft, the MiG line. MiG pilots fought with distinction in WWII, but the MiG heyday hit with the design of the MiG-15, a copy of a Nazi...
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10x22 Episodio 22
T-34: Russian Victory
10 de mayo del 2003
44 min
Born out of a desperate need to defend the Motherland, Stalin enlisted the ideas of an American engineer, J. Walter Christie, to develop in total secrecy one of the most formidable tanks in history...
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10x23 Episodio 23
Tank Crews
15 de mayo del 2003
44 min
During WWII, American tank crews duked it out with Nazi Panzers in a high-explosive duel to the death. The German tanks had thicker armor and better guns than the mainstay of the U.S. armored force...
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10x25 Episodio 25
Torture Devices
22 de mayo del 2003
44 min
For more than 3,000 years, emperors and generals, dictators and police, criminals, clerics, and even medical doctors have created and used a vast array of torture devices–everything from the ancien...
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10x26 Episodio 26
Cosmodrome
26 de mayo del 2003
44 min
The story of Russia’s “Crown Jewels”, the finest rocket engines in the world, built under conditions of absolute secrecy to land a man on the moon. Learn how, at the height of Cold War rivalry, the...
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10x27 Episodio 27
Exterminator
03 de junio del 2003
44 min
In a raging war for control of Earth, occupying forces buzz and skitter, with some out to draw blood! Termites, mosquitoes, rats, mice, ants, and cockroaches have spread damage, disease, and death ...
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10x28 Episodio 28
Million Dollar Guns
07 de junio del 2003
44 min
They are the treasures of a select few. Each holds a story of human triumph…epic pagentry or desperate tragedy…cast forever in iron, steel, and wood. Some command price tags well over one hundred t...
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10x29 Episodio 29
High Voltage
24 de junio del 2003
44 min
Look closely at those tall metal towers that span the country and you might see tiny specks climbing up the soaring steel like spiders on an enormous web. Meet the courageous linemen who erect, str...
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10x30 Episodio 30
4x4
22 de junio del 2003
44 min
In this full immersion journey through the world of maximum off-roading, learn what it’s like to blow the carbon out of your system as we trace the history of the four-wheel drive vehicle. From the...
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10x31 Episodio 31
Dangerous Cargo
25 de junio del 2003
44 min
Toxic traffic is everywhere! An average of 800,000 shipments of hazardous materials hit our highways and railways daily. From Wild West wooden crates filled with explosives to HAZMAT containers of ...
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10x34 Episodio 34
Engineering Disasters 4
02 de julio del 2003
44 min
Engineering disasters can result in personal tragedy, national humiliation, and economic ruin. But buried within their wreckage lie lessons that point the way to a safer future. The fire at the Las...
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10x35 Episodio 35
Nature Tech: Tsunamis
08 de julio del 2003
44 min
Among the most mysterious disasters, tsunamis–Japanese for “harbor waves”–claimed over 50,000 lives in the 20th century! Generated by offshore earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and landslides, these...
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10x36 Episodio 36
Logging Tech
09 de julio del 2003
44 min
When Paul Bunyan cried "Timber!", he never foresaw today's cutting-edge, controversial industry that feeds a ravenous, lumber-crazy world–a world striving to protect nature while devouring it. Come...
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10x37 Episodio 37
Breaking the Sound Barrier
16 de julio del 2003
44 min
For decades, the sound barrier loomed as an impenetrable wall against manned flight that buffeted planes with shock waves as they approached the speed of sound. Scientists thought the barrier could...
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10x38 Episodio 38
Car Crashes
23 de julio del 2003
44 min
In the mid-1960s, the US lost an average of 55,000 people yearly to car crashes. Since then, the number of cars on the road has doubled, but fatalities have decreased by nearly a third. The dramati...
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10x39 Episodio 39
Sandhogs
23 de julio del 2003
44 min
Sandhogs work hundreds of feet down, where it is dark, damp, and dangerous, challenging nature’s awesome forces to drive tunnels through solid rock and sinking mud. They drill and blast, bore, mine...
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10x40 Episodio 40
Convertibles
24 de julio del 2003
44 min
Topless, unobstructed–the convertible completely transforms the driving experience and unlike any other car, sets the driver free. During this face-paced hour, experts highlight the history of the ...
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10x41 Episodio 41
Loading Docks
30 de julio del 2003
44 min
Each day ships, trains, trucks, and planes haul supplies that keep store shelves full and factories moving. At every stop there’s a loading dock–an interface where shipping and storage hook up. You...
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10x42 Episodio 42
Terror Tech: Military
05 de agosto del 2003
44 min
The chance of enemy confrontation by sea, tank, or air battle is small, but terrorist networks operating in the shadows will likely challenge the U.S again. Instead of waiting to react, the militar...
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10x43 Episodio 43
Nature Tech: Tornadoes
05 de agosto del 2003
44 min
How does technology grasp nature’s most violent, chaotic storm? For half a century, U.S. meteorologists have been building a countrywide system of Doppler Radar, widespread automated data-gathering...
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10x44 Episodio 44
Military Movers
06 de agosto del 2003
44 min
The challenge: Move millions of soldiers and tons of cargo halfway around the world and into the thick of action. How? Use the biggest ships, the widest planes, and the strongest trucks. Today, mil...
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10x47 Episodio 47
Bullets
13 de agosto del 2003
44 min
From "safe" bullets that stop hijackers but leave aircraft unscathed to bullets that chain-saw through steel and "smart" bullets computer-programmed to hit a target, this explosive hour examines th...
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10x48 Episodio 48
Aircraft Carrier
15 de agosto del 2003
44 min
From the earliest experiments in WWI to the technological wonders that ruled the sea and sky of the Middle East, George C. Scott chronicles the history of one of today’s most versatile and powerful...
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10x49 Episodio 49
The Gunboats of Vietnam
18 de agosto del 2003
44 min
It takes brave sailors to steer their gunboats into waters where larger ships cannot go. In this historic documentary, relive the dramatic rescue of General MacArthur by a squadron of PT boats in W...
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10x50 Episodio 50
Metal
19 de agosto del 2003
44 min
They constitute the very essence of the modern world; the cadence of our progress sounds in the measured ring of the blacksmith’s hammer. From soaring skyscrapers and sturdy bridges to jet planes a...
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10x51 Episodio 51
Landmines
21 de agosto del 2003
44 min
A major battlefield weapon since the American Civil War and the stuff of nightmares ever since, the civilian toll from landmines remains immense. Inflicted by an enemy that can’t be seen, landmines...
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10x52 Episodio 52
Space Shuttle Columbia
26 de agosto del 2003
44 min
Combination rocket, spacecraft, and airplane, the space shuttle is the most complex vehicle ever built. Long before it ever flew, the shuttle was nearly scuttled due to political pressures, technol...
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10x53 Episodio 53
Overseas Highway
03 de septiembre del 2003
44 min
A spectacular roadway nearly 120 miles long, the Overseas Highway links mainland Florida with the Florida Keys, and contains 51 bridges, including the Seven-Mile Bridge. A boat was the only mode of...
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10x54 Episodio 54
Terror Tech: Civilian
08 de septiembre del 2003
44 min
Witness the construction of a terrorist-proof safe room. Discover how your windows might someday act as biological weapons detectors. Learn how scientists are protecting the food you eat and water ...
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10x55 Episodio 55
Machu Picchu
24 de septiembre del 2003
44 min
The engineering marvel Machu Picchu sits perched on a ridge in the Peruvian Andes. Originally built by the Incas, this magnificent structure remains a mystery. Was it an observatory? Pleasure retre...
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10x56 Episodio 56
The PT Boats
24 de septiembre del 2003
44 min
Pound for pound, the small wooden Patrol Torpedo Boats of WWII were among the most powerful warships of all time. Daring PT vets recall why their speed and maneuverability were too much for giant, ...
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10x57 Episodio 57
The Battleships
24 de septiembre del 2003
44 min
General quarters! You’re going into battle aboard the century’s deadliest warships–the Dreadnought, Bismarck, Missouri, Yamato. Follow the 1916 Battle of Jutland, decisive World War II clashes in t...
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10x58 Episodio 58
Early Machine Guns
26 de septiembre del 2003
44 min
The story of the birth and development of rapid fire weapons from the 14th century until the end of WWI–where on one terrible day the machine gun was responsible for mowing down nearly 60,000 men
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10x59 Episodio 59
Smart Bombs
30 de septiembre del 2003
44 min
Precision-guided munitions, smart bombs were the media buzz of the first Gulf War and a major military and political driving force of the second. But their apparent sudden celebrity is deceptive. T...
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10x60 Episodio 60
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
15 de octubre del 2003
44 min
In the land of Mardi Gras, jambalaya, and zydeco, exists an engineering marvel called the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway that seems to go on forever. Two ribbons of concrete span the largest inland bo...
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10x61 Episodio 61
Inviting Disaster 1: Three Mile Island
21 de octubre del 2003
44 min
They make our lives more comfortable, more rewarding, and more secure. They are the magical machines that have brought us to the edge of the new frontier of limitless possibilities. But it is a hin...
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10x62 Episodio 62
The Luftwaffe
22 de octubre del 2003
44 min
What if the Nazis had held out and the war in Europe lasted until 1946? We’ll review the remarkable aircraft that Germany had in development at war’s end, such as manned supersonic aircraft, manned...
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10x63 Episodio 63
Panzers
22 de octubre del 2003
44 min
The story of a revolutionary breed of tank, a weapon whose speed and power would dominate European battlefields with a new kind of battle, the stunning Blitzkrieg–”lightning war”.
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10x64 Episodio 64
U-Boats
25 de octubre del 2003
44 min
They dominated the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to the eastern coast of the U.S. They struck against Allied shipping with near impunity, holding England in a stranglehold for the first years of WWII–...
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10x65 Episodio 65
Inviting Disaster 2: The Kursk
28 de octubre del 2003
44 min
The amazing machines of human invention most often do our bidding with uncomplaining proficiency. But when they go wrong, they exact a terrible wage. In August 2000, the Russian submarine EM Kursk ...
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10x66 Episodio 66
FBI's Crime Lab
29 de octubre del 2003
44 min
To spearhead its fight against crime and terrorism in the 21st century, the FBI is relying on its $150 million-plus building, the new Crime Lab at Quantico. Here, nearly 700 highly trained scientis...
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10x67 Episodio 67
Inviting Disaster 3: Challenger and Columbia
04 de noviembre del 2003
44 min
No program better symbolizes human mastery of machines than does the space shuttle. But the breakups of EM Challenger /EM and EM Columbia revealed the program is tragically flawed. Based on the Jam...
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10x68 Episodio 68
Inviting Disaster 4, Building Failures
04 de noviembre del 2003
44 min
Based on the popular book, this episode explores historical building collapses–from ancient pyramids to the Cathedral at Beauvais to Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency–and demonstrates that clear warning ...
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10x69 Episodio 69
Shipyards
05 de noviembre del 2003
44 min
Shipyards are waterside construction sites where the extraordinary takes shape and where some of the largest tools built by humans help create the biggest machines on earth. But shipyards and ships...
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10x70 Episodio 70
Guns of the Sky
07 de noviembre del 2003
44 min
Hop into the cockpit for a daring century-long ride through the history of aircraft weaponry–from the very first handgun fired from a biplane. Features interviews with Chuck Yeager, Korean War ace ...
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10x71 Episodio 71
Extreme Trucks
12 de noviembre del 2003
44 min
Hop into the cab for the ride of your life as we examine extreme trucks, including: a jet truck that can travel 300 mph; the Baltimore Technical Assistance Response Unit's mobile command truck; a g...
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10x73 Episodio 73
ET Tech
25 de noviembre del 2003
44 min
In 2003, with Mars closer to Earth than it had been in 60,000 years, scientists launched three life-seeking planetary landers. If the long journeys prove successful, all should be hard at work on t...
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10x74 Episodio 74
Million Dollar Cars
26 de noviembre del 2003
44 min
There is very little that collectors, historians and auctioneers agree about, but they do agree that a few passionate visionaries created a small number of automobiles that have ascended into the s...
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10x75 Episodio 75
The Technology of Lewis and Clark
28 de abril del 2003
44 min
Explore the technology and survival techniques used by the men of Lewis and Clark on their landmark journey to the Pacific. From their 15-ton supply ship to the 193 pounds of dehydrated soup they c...
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10x76 Episodio 76
B-52: Stratofortress
28 de noviembre del 2003
44 min
For nearly half a century, one bomber has dominated the skies. With a maximum speed of 650 m.p.h., a range of over 8,000 miles, and ability to drop a massive 70,000 pounds of bombs, it’s the most l...
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10x78 Episodio 78
Rolls Royce
02 de diciembre del 2003
44 min
The world’s most famous brand, Rolls Royce, is owned by the same company that makes Bentley, a luxury leader once known for its prowess on the track. Their stories combine all that inspires envy in...
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10x79 Episodio 79
Tailgating
03 de diciembre del 2003
44 min
At stadiums nationwide, thousands of football fans come together to show team spirit, eat incredible food, and join the community of tailgating. We journey around the U.S. to legendary tailgating c...
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10x80 Episodio 80
Wheel Estate
03 de diciembre del 2003
44 min
Land Yachts, Portable Palaces, Corrugated Condos–whatever the name, travel trailers and RVs have become an American icon–the 20th century’s covered wagon. Hit the road as we travel with recreationa...
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10x81 Episodio 81
Sports Cars
04 de diciembre del 2003
44 min
Car aficionados rarely agree on what makes a true sports car, but they concede that in little over a hundred years, they went from crude to sublime. We’ll examine Britain’s MG, Triumph, Morgan, and...
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10x82 Episodio 82
Technology of Kitty Hawk
17 de diciembre del 2003
44 min
Two brainy bicycle makers…a remote North Carolina moonscape…and an impossible dream. On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright took wing at Kitty Hawk and flew–as none before had–unraveling a...
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10x83 Episodio 83
Egyptian Pyramids
18 de diciembre del 2003
44 min
Constructed as tombs for the ancient pharaohs, over 100 pyramids remain in Egypt. Built during a span of well over 1,000 years, they stand as cultural and engineering marvels of staggering proporti...
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10x84 Episodio 84
The Berlin Wall
19 de diciembre del 2003
44 min
During the Cold War, the Berlin Wall stood as a forbidding barrier in an embattled world. Erected in August 1961, the Wall system stretched 103 miles through and around Berlin, locking in 1.3-milli...
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10x85 Episodio 85
Toys
23 de diciembre del 2003
44 min
All aboard the nostalgia express as we take a trip through the past to enjoy toys of our youth–the ones we can't forget and those that some of use never gave up! This is the real toy story! We take...
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10x86 Episodio 86
Engineering Disasters 5
30 de diciembre del 2003
44 min
Examines some of the most notorious engineering failures of recent years and asks what went wrong and what we learned from them. We take viewers to the southern coast of Louisiana, where a misplace...
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01 de enero, 2003
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