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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.
S15, EP31 "Made in the USA"
The world's biggest and oldest flag manufacturer; inside the last US athletic shoe factory; the strangest form of alternate transportation; a hot toy company that believes it's imperative to keep their work here at home.
S12, EP11 "Ben Franklin Tech"
Benjamin Franklin, the oldest Founding Father, was the late 18th century's foremost scientist and greatest inventor; created Pennsylvania Stove, lightning rod, glass armonica for Mozart and Beethoven and anti-counterfeiting techniques.
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.
