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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.
S7, EP45 "Then and Now: Glass"
Glass serves as one of the most versatile materials, sheathing skyscrapers, containing liquids, aiding vision, enabling high-speed communication, and providing artistic expression; heating certain rocks and minerals creates this transparent material.
S4, EP14 "Plastics"
Plastics are everywhere: the home, the workplace, the car, the human body, outer space, and most conspicuously, the garbage heap and landfill; join us as we review this protean substance's past and future.
S11, EP15 "Glue"
Glue appears in everything from carpet to Space Shuttles and surgery; explore its trajectory from Neolithic cave dwellers using animal glue on ceremonial skulls to modern Elmer's, 3M tapes, and super glues that can lift 6,000-pound trucks.
S16, EP2 "Grease"
The hidden uses of grease inside giant machines; how grease is made in a New York factory; new advances are working towards for grease.
S14, EP21 "Iron"
How iron mined in Minnesota is made into steel; iron weapons revolutionize warfare; military metallurgists customize weapons and demonstrate their firepower; iron magnets.
