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Fecha de estreno: 04 de enero, 2006
Episodios: 60
Duración de temporada: 44 horas
Última emisión: 08 de agosto, 2022
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Episodios
Capítulo 1: Episodio 1
Fecha de estreno: 04 de enero del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: They hold just about everything we need, from condiments to cargo. Made of steel, aluminum, paper and glass, they protect and preserve. They're underground and above ground, they journey around the...
Capítulo 2: Episodio 2
Fecha de estreno: 11 de enero del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Out of control it’s a monster with a voracious appetite. Properly harnessed it’s a force that has shaped our world. We’ve learned to create and exploit it, but we’ll never truly tame it. From furna...
Capítulo 3: Episodio 3
Fecha de estreno: 18 de enero del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Tune in as Modern Marvels looks into the history of cotton, a product used in hundreds of different products, from clothing to lipstick.
Capítulo 4: Episodio 4
Fecha de estreno: 08 de febrero del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Modern Marvels shows more of the world's biggest engineering disasters. We look at faults in the U.S. Army's Stryker Light Armored Vehicle, the Sunjiawan coal-mine explosion in China in 2005, the d...
Capítulo 5: Episodio 5
Fecha de estreno: 14 de febrero del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: It pulls, stretches, bubbles, hardens, crunches, and melts! We eat about 7-billion tons of it yearly. We’re talking about Candy–loved by kids and savored by adults. Candy-making evolved from a hand...
Capítulo 6: Episodio 6
Fecha de estreno: 21 de febrero del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Examining unusual World War II weapons that were in the planning or testing stages for use by the Axis powers. Included: an assault rifle that could shoot around corners; a death ray capable of boi...
Capítulo 7: Episodio 7
Fecha de estreno: 24 de febrero del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Examining unusual World War II weapons that were in the planning or testing stages for use by the Allies. Included: floating tanks; pigeon-guided missiles.
Capítulo 8: Episodio 8
Fecha de estreno: 28 de febrero del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Modern Marvels examines the destruction Hurricane Katrina caused in New Orleans.
Capítulo 9: Episodio 9
Fecha de estreno: 08 de marzo del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Made by the tanning of animal hides, leather has proven to be a versatile and important material. Without it, the Pilgrims may not have survived the winters in Plymouth, and the Romans may not have...
Capítulo 10: Episodio 10
Fecha de estreno: 22 de marzo del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: More engineering disasters are profiled, including the sinking of SS Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 in Lake Superior; two Boeing 737 crashes; a diesel-fuel leak, a radiation-spilling accident at Santa S...
Capítulo 11: Episodio 11
Fecha de estreno: 26 de abril del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Although quite simple in nature, insulation is a very important component in keeping our homes a comfortable temperature. In this episode, we'll find out the history of insulation and then visit ma...
Capítulo 12: Episodio 12
Fecha de estreno: 02 de mayo del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: This is the true story of the scientific feats and failures of Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Capítulo 13: Episodio 13
Fecha de estreno: 03 de mayo del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Man has always had a need to move large amounts of earth. In this episode, we profile the technological advances which have allowed shovels to become absolutely enormous, capable of carrying 200 to...
Capítulo 14: Episodio 14
Fecha de estreno: 10 de mayo del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: The program features the quest to drill the deepest hole ever and the scientific drill ship expected to perform the feat, and also looks at drills used to recover ice cores that will unearth thousa...
Capítulo 15: Episodio 15
Fecha de estreno: 24 de mayo del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Remember “brick” cell phones, Pac-Man, Rubik’s Cube, Sony Walkman, and the first music CDs? Remember all the new and exciting gadgets of the 1980s? Join us as we investigate the transition from Ind...
Capítulo 16: Episodio 16
Fecha de estreno: 25 de mayo del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: One of the most prodigious American inventors, Ben Franklin is credited for creating things like the lightning rod, the armonica, the Franklin stove, bifocal glasses, and the flexible urinary cathe...
Capítulo 17: Episodio 17
Fecha de estreno: 12 de junio del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: More than a century ago two men controlled nearly all of U.S. copper production, transforming Butte, Montana from a washed-up gold-mining camp into a global powerhouse. William Clark, a ruthless ba...
Capítulo 18: Episodio 18
Fecha de estreno: 14 de junio del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: They are elements that occupy a select portion of the periodic table and are so essential to America's economic and military might that they are stored in the National Defense Stockpile in case of ...
Capítulo 19: Episodio 19
Fecha de estreno: 19 de junio del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Visit the United States Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for an inside look into the government facilities where U.S. legal tender is generated. Learn the history behind these two inst...
Capítulo 20: Episodio 20
Fecha de estreno: 28 de junio del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: An old-fashioned style of cooking, barbecue has evolved into a modern food craze and spawned a multi-billion dollar industry. We digest famous barbecue cook-offs and visit long-established barbecue...
Capítulo 22: Episodio 22
Fecha de estreno: 03 de julio del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Since the creation of black powder in China centuries ago, explosives have been decisive on the battlefield. Follow their incendiary story from ancient times right up to today's plastic demolitions.
Capítulo 23: Episodio 23
Fecha de estreno: 12 de julio del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Bold, cunning, and audacious, pirates are a breed of fighting men and women who have terrorized the high seas since before recorded history. At the height of their power in the 1700s they literally...
Capítulo 24: Episodio 24
Fecha de estreno: 26 de julio del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Where do machines go when they die? From B-52 Bombers to massive aircraft carriers, from passenger cars to Cold War cruise missiles and remnants of the Twin Towers, all that we manufacture has a li...
Capítulo 25: Episodio 25
Fecha de estreno: 26 de julio del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Join us for another look at big machines. At NASA's Ames Research Center, we visit the world's biggest wind tunnel, part of the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex, and one of the biggest and ...
Capítulo 26: Episodio 26
Fecha de estreno: 28 de julio del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Skyscrapers are an extraordinary feat of human engineering: exposing millions of pounds of concrete and steel to the enemy forces of wind and gravity. Starting with the foundation and on through th...
Capítulo 27: Episodio 27
Fecha de estreno: 28 de julio del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: The development of the deadly Avtomat Kalashnikova, 1947, known as the AK-47, is discussed by its inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, who talks about working within the secretive world of the Soviet mil...
Capítulo 28: Episodio 28
Fecha de estreno: 02 de agosto del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Pintsized as a pea or big as a bowling ball, nutritional, durable, and versatile, nuts have been a staple of the human diet since time began, and archaeological evidence places them among our earli...
Capítulo 32: Episodio 32
Fecha de estreno: 03 de agosto del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Mixtures of metals and caustic chemicals that make our tech, tools and toys surge with energy.
Capítulo 33: Episodio 33
Fecha de estreno: 23 de agosto del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: After thousands of years, Egyptian mummies are speaking from the grave. With the use of state-of-the-art computer tomography scanning we explore inside a 2,000-year-old mummified body of an Egyptia...
Capítulo 34: Episodio 34
Fecha de estreno: 30 de agosto del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: From collapsing floodwalls in New Orleans to high-tech mechanical storm surge barriers in Europe, we'll explore the 2,500-year history of keeping rivers and tides at bay by erecting levees.
Capítulo 35: Episodio 35
Fecha de estreno: 06 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Water, the most needed substance for life, so powerful it can carve our landscape, yet so nurturing it can spawn life and support its intricate matrix.
Capítulo 36: Episodio 36
Fecha de estreno: 07 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Coke vs Pepsi for world supremacy. Each year, Americans consume more soft drinks than tap water. Available in nearly 200 countries, Coca-Cola alone sells one-billion bottles, cans, and glasses of p...
Capítulo 37: Episodio 37
Fecha de estreno: 13 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: It transports electricity, water, and heat. It brings music to our ears and beauty to our eyes. Copper--its impressive traits, long history, and how it's mined. This versatile metal’s most famous a...
Capítulo 38: Episodio 38
Fecha de estreno: 17 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: The first specialized gun, the British upper-class used it to shoot birds and small game for sport. The shotgun took on a variety of roles, used by hunter and warrior alike.
Capítulo 39: Episodio 39
Fecha de estreno: 18 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: The greatest religious structures are marvels of engineering, technology, and invention, representing not only the glory of God, but also the ingenuity of man.
Capítulo 40: Episodio 40
Fecha de estreno: 20 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Buckle up for a rip-roaring ride through the world of extreme horsepower. Experience the fastest accelerating cars on earth. Find out how horsepower was first coined as a marketing tool for the ste...
Capítulo 41: Episodio 41
Fecha de estreno: 20 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Take an in-depth look at the most proven and reliable sources: solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, and tidal power. From the experimental to the tried-and-true, renewable energy sources are overflow...
Capítulo 42: Episodio 42
Fecha de estreno: 20 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Explore the history of freight transportation from its humble beginnings as tramways in mines to complex system of rails that stretches to every corner of the nation.
Capítulo 43: Episodio 43
Fecha de estreno: 21 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Teamed with leading archeologists and experts, peel back the layers of the past--to reveal a hidden history that hasn't seen the light of day for ages.
Capítulo 44: Episodio 44
Fecha de estreno: 26 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway is comprised of a system of canals, land cuts, and a series of natural and artificial barrier islands, which provide a protected passage for low-draft vessels wis...
Capítulo 45: Episodio 45
Fecha de estreno: 27 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: They are the swarthy eagles of the sky: Past, present, and future advances in stealth military aircraft.
Capítulo 46: Episodio 46
Fecha de estreno: 27 de septiembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: It's one thing to make a 60-foot-long jet aircraft seem invisible, but quite another to hide a 400-foot-long warship from the prying eyes of an enemy. Explore the challenging world of stealth techn...
Capítulo 47: Episodio 47
Fecha de estreno: 04 de octubre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Invented by the Chinese in about 3000BC, it spread the word of God and war. It set us free and spelled out our rights. It tells stories, sells products and solves crimes. It's ink and it's everywhere!
Capítulo 48: Episodio 48
Fecha de estreno: 11 de octubre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: It's an art, it's a science and it's a marriage of vapor and water. From the elite to the illegal, the banned, to the celebrated, the distillation of spirits is a 50 billion dollar a year business....
Capítulo 49: Episodio 49
Fecha de estreno: 18 de octubre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Strength...a powerful word, but what does it mean? How is it measured? Why are some things simply stronger than others. How strong is a rope, a tractor, a diamond, a tugboat or even plastic. How an...
Capítulo 50: Episodio 50
Fecha de estreno: 01 de noviembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Hosted by Terry Deitz, a former Tomcat pilot, this special explores the legacy of one of the greatest fighter jets ever built. Witness first hand the last F-14 catapult launches and arrested trap l...
Capítulo 51: Episodio 51
Fecha de estreno: 08 de noviembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Discovered around 18,000 years ago, tobacco was first cultivated in the Andes between 5000 and 3000 B.C. At a modern tobacco farm in North Carolina, a farmer will show how the crop is harvested and...
Capítulo 52: Episodio 52
Fecha de estreno: 15 de noviembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Our basic need and desire for food has made the supermarket one of the great success stories of modern retailing. Making customers' visits to the market as efficient as possible has led to bar codi...
Capítulo 53: Episodio 53
Fecha de estreno: 28 de noviembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: It slices and squeezes, sorts and sizes, mixes and cooks. Every morning we count on it to keep our orange juice fresh, our eggs whole, our cereals flaked, and our McGriddle syrupy--this is Breakfas...
Capítulo 54: Episodio 54
Fecha de estreno: 29 de noviembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: A glass a day is said to keep the doctor away. A defeated Napoleon drowned his sorrows in it; Thomas Jefferson became obsessed with it. Wine is an integral part of our culture and more wine is cons...
Capítulo 55: Episodio 55
Fecha de estreno: 29 de noviembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: In America's orchards and farm fields, the constant struggle between hand labor and mechanization has produced dozens of efficient and sometimes bizarre harvesting methods. Learn the secrets of the...
Capítulo 56: Episodio 56
Fecha de estreno: 06 de diciembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: In March of 2005, the BP Refinery in Texas City, Texas, suffered a series of explosions that decimated a large portion of the facility and killed 15 workers. Then the unusual series of events that ...
Capítulo 57: Episodio 57
Fecha de estreno: 10 de diciembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: It is the bane of every suburban parent and the joy to every school kid. Born in a swirling storm cloud through a process called nucleation, the characteristics of snow flakes are threatened by pol...
Capítulo 58: Episodio 58
Fecha de estreno: 13 de diciembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: After water, tea is the second most popular drink in the world. It has been around as a drink for 5000 years, and 6 billion pounds of tea are harvested annually.
Capítulo 59: Episodio 59
Fecha de estreno: 20 de diciembre del 2006 44 min
Sinopsis: Christmas is observed by many people around the world, for both religious reasons and more secular purposes. Trees, lights, ornaments, and window displays are a big part of the celebration. Thanks ...
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