Watch Modern Marvels with Fubo for $0 Today
Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination on a grand scale, "Modern Marvels" tells the amazing stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who create everyday items, technological advancements and man-made wonders. From the Statue of Liberty to distilled spirits, and canals to bridges, no subject seems out of reach. Science, technology, electronics, mechanics, engineering, architecture, industry, mass production, manufacturing, and agriculture are just some of the many topics that have been covered during the long-running series.
S11 "Dredging"
Dredgers clear and deepen ports for vessels that carry megacontainers.
S7, EP33 "Quarries"
Dynamite explodes hills, drills divide stone walls, and giant cranes pull 400,000-pound blocks from quarry pits; rock serves as civilization's raw material for roads, buildings, paint, glue, makeup, antacids, and chewing gum.
S12 "Cotton"
Cotton caused a civil war and jump-started the Industrial Revolution while becoming the world's most ubiquitous fabric; a chronicle of cotton's journey from dirt to shirt.
S14, EP26 "Corrosion & Decomposition"
America's aging infrastructure is in danger of collapse due to corrosion, according to engineers; technology for battling corrosion; harnessing the destructive power of decomposition.
S14, EP35 "Measure It"
How distance, time, speed, weight and temperature are measured; weighing a whale; how a speedometer works; the National Institute of Standards and Technology; measuring tapes made by Stanley Tools.
