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This comprehensive 14-disc collector's set features the most popular episodes of the groundbreaking Modern Marvels series and covers a broad range of technological breakthroughs and advancements. From environmental catastrophes like the Salton Sea to military blunders like Patriot missle errors, from subway tunnel cave-ins to oil tanker psills, these shows outline in intricate detail the devasting effect of technology gone awry. There is also a complete...
7) Computers
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The documentary traces the history and ongoing evolution of the computer.
10) St. Louis Arch
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Extensive photos and film clips of its construction; interviews with the inventors, engineers, and contractors who transformed the dream into a reality; and a behind-the-scenes tour.
11) Milk
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Travel the globe to explore the history and technology behind this ancient source of nutrition. Visit a farm with a milking parlor that looks more like a cow merry-go-round. Learn what pasteurization is really all about. Discover the menagerie of animals that provide milk and learn the many ways people put their efforts to use.
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Artistic longing, scientific curiosity, and financial gain were key to the invention of photography. Discusses the camera obscura and camera lucida as aids to drawing, early chemical discoveries necessary to make a photographic image permanent, and the role of inventors such as Joseph Niepce, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, and Fox Talbot. Early images such as heliographs, shadowgraphs, Calotypes, Daguerrotypes and the related processes to create these...
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Delves into complex and often-tragic engineering failures, including the 1987 failure of New York's Schoharie Creek Bridge; the 1996 partial destruction of the Riverwalk Marketplace in New Orleans by a runaway freighter; the roof collapse at the Rosemont Horizon Arena in Illinois in 1979; the deadliest grain-dust explosion on record; and the crash of the British R101 airship in the 1920s.
20) Monster trucks
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Goes behind the scenes for a first-hand look at what it's like to be behind the wheel of the "monster trucks" in competition. Interviews with Bob Chandler, inventor of "Bigfoot", and other drivers and racers.
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