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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.
S2, EP10 "Mount Rushmore"
Under the supervision of sculptor Gutzon Borglum, miners and quarrymen carve the faces of four U.S. presidents into the Black Hills of South Dakota, paying tribute to the first 150 years of American history.
S3, EP17 "Statue of Liberty"
It started as an idea at a French dinner party and became the symbol of the free world; the story of France's gift to the US reveals a 20-year struggle to design and build the world's largest monument using paper-thin copper sheets.
S15, EP22 "The Real National Treasure"
Visiting the U.S. Library of Congress to explore the contents of secret vaults and see how the staff of 4,000 catalogs and preserves treasures.
S10, EP40 "Presidential Movers"
The vehicles that transport the President of the United States aren't your ordinary planes, trains, and automobiles: they are top-secret; and for your Average Joe, there's only two ways to find out what they're really like inside.
