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Wartime research and development have revolutionized communication, transportation, and medicine; from Spam to nuclear power to hairspray and cell phones, life as we know it ironically owes a lot to war.

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Inventions of War

Combat training throughout history, reviewing survival skills and psychological tools; from ancient Rome to World Wars One and Two, and how modern training is enhanced by advanced technology and computer simulation.

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Since its completion in 1869, the Suez Canal has been a vital link in world trade and a point of controversy in geopolitics; today, more than 20,000 ships transit the canal yearly.

Suez Canal

A fun-filled glimpse into the not so distant history of video games; since inception, the gaming industry has been a driving force in computer technology and video games are one of today's dominant entertainment mediums.

Video Games: Behind the Fun

When finally completed, China's Three Gorges Dam will tower 607 feet in the air and weigh more than forty Great Pyramids; along with China's Great Wall, it will constitute of the two man-made objects visible from the moon.

China's Great Dam

Trucks transport a staggering 70 percent of all the nation's goods; looking at the amazingly diverse world of American trucks and the colorful men and women who drive them.

Trucks

Begun in 1817, the Erie Canal was an engineering wonder of 363 miles of water highway linking the western frontier to the Atlantic seaboard; it took eight years to construct and thousands of hours of brutal labor.

The Erie Canal

For centuries, banks enable the creation of wealth; a chronicle of banking, from its early European origins to e-banking; modern technology revolutionizes the way banks do business.

Banks

Around the world and across the eons, gold stands as a symbol of power, wealth, and love; the story of the hunters of the precious metal and their methods for extracting it.

Gold Mines

In less than a century, the world went from dirt tracks to highways, from propeller planes to space travel, from sailboats to supertankers; in the process, a glut of traffic was created on roadways, railways, airways, and seaways.

Traffic

The history of one of the world's most famous bridges, London's Tower Bridge; when it was erected in 1892, it became a postcard image of London, but the famed gothic towers of this pioneering steel structure, sheathed in stone, are purely decorative.

Tower Bridge

From amazing ancient Roman aqueducts and arch bridges, romantic Renaissance spans, 19th-century railroad crossovers, to monumental marvels of our time, bridges played a key role in the human quest to connect and unify.

Bridges

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In 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser needed to harness the flow of the world's longest river: the Nile. The Aswan High Dam socially, politically, culturally, and agriculturally affected Egypt.

S6 E21 | Aswan Dam