
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.

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Extreme firefighting techniques must be used to quell blazes from oil wells, war, forest fires and airplanes.

Hazardous-material shipment; trucks carrying classified government materials; Con-Air flight moves dangerous felons.

World-shaking crashes; efforts to make auto racing safer; the latest in motorcycle crash survival equipment; a skydiver survives falling 11,000 feet without a parachute; NASA's asteroid-tracking team; colliding subatomic particles.

Delves into the little-known, hugely important, multi-billion-dollar industry of product testing, where wrinkles get ironed out and goods are stripped of marketing and hype to see if they work; meet product testers who serve as truth squads.