Episode guide
Modern Marvels: Season 3
10 episodes · first aired Aug 20, 1995
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- 1 Space Shuttle Aug 20, 1995 · 44m Considered by many to be the most astounding machine ever built, this reusable spaceship is the apex of flight technology. This program recounts the challenges and the critical issues that…
- 2 Brooklyn Bridge Oct 1, 1995 · 44m It was an engineering feat of almost miraculous proportions and a design of spectacular elegance. Rare photographs and behind-the-scenes stories recall the politics, the struggles, and the…
- 3 Tunnels Oct 8, 1995 · 44m There is no more potent demonstration of man’s resolve than the design and construction of tunnels–avenues that slice through a conspiracy of elements in the single-minded determination to…
- 4 Tennessee Valley Authority Oct 15, 1995 · 44m During the depths of the Great Depression, it was FDR’s greatest triumph: A massive public works project that took a 40,000 square mile, disaster-prone river basin, and turned it into a…
- 5 Oil Oct 16, 1995 · 44m From the first well in Pennsylvania to the gushing Spindletop and modern supertankers, the story of oil is the story of civilization as we know it. We’ll take a look at the ingenious and…
- 6 Silver Mines Oct 1, 1995 · 44m It was called the "mother lode", a deposit of silver so massive that it would produce $300-million in its first 25 years of operation, establish Nevada as a state, and bankroll the Union…
- 7 The NYC Subway Oct 19, 1995 · 44m A trip through time on the New York Subway beginning at the beginning– October 1904. We look at New York before the subway–a world of horse carts and elevated trains. We see early…
- 8 The Railroads That Tamed the West Oct 20, 1995 · 44m The year was 1869 and America had just completed the greatest building achievement in its history–the Transcontinental Railroad. A thin ribbon of steel and wood now connected East and…
- 9 Paving America Oct 29, 1995 · 44m The story of the construction of our grand national highway system, from its beginnings in 1912 (it was conceived by auto and headlight tycoons) to its completion in 1984 (when the last…
- 12 The Alaskan Oil Pipeline Nov 4, 1995 Being starved by an OPEC embargo, America is desperate for oil, and in 1973 construction begins on a 800 mile pipeline, tapping into Alaskan oil to quench their insatiable oil hunger.