The best of Modern Marvels [dvd] / the History Channel presents ; produced by Digital Ranch, Jupiter Entertainment, and Hearst/Actuality for the History Channel.
V.1. Engineering disasters 4 -- Engineering disasters 5 -- Engineering disasters 6 -- Engineering disasters 7 -- v. 2. Engineering disasters 8 -- Engineering disasters 9 -- Engineering disasters 10 -- Engineering disasters 11 -- v. 3. Engineering disasters 12 -- Engineering disasters 13 -- Engineering disasters 14 -- Engineering disasters 14 -- Engineering disasters 15 -- v. 4. Engineering disasters 16 -- Engineering disasters 17 -- Engineering disasters 18 -- v. 5. Engineering disasters 19 -- Engineering disasters 20 -- Engineering disasters : New Orleans -- v. 6. Racetrack tech -- The autobahn -- The F-14 -- v. 7. The Manhattan Project -- D-Day tech - Bullets -- v. 8. Space Shuttle Columbia -- ET tech -- Rubber -- v. 9. High-tech sex -- James Bond gadgets -- Bathroom tech -- v. 10. Distilleries -- Harvesting -- Candy -- v. 11. The Sears Tower -- The Chrysler Building -- Twin Towers of the East -- v. 12. New York bridges -- George Washington Bridge -- Bridges -- v. 13. The world's longest bridge -- Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnerl -- Lighthouses -- v. 14. Overseas highway -- The Mackinac Bridge -- Quarries.
Summary:
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 special on the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
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