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Celebrate the ingenuity and imagination found in the world around us. 24/7 episodes of Modern Marvels, television's most innovative series.

Modern Marvels

Walt Disney World transforms Florida swampland into 27,000-acre technological marvel with four theme parks featuring space-age centrifuges, 3,000 PSI hydraulic vehicles, and hundreds of audio animatronics powered by pneumatics and electrical systems.

Walt Disney World

Leonardo da Vinci remains intriguing 500 years after death; beyond great artist, he was remarkable scientist and inventor whose notebooks contained incredible machines from weapons to submarines, robots, and analogue computers with workable plans.

Da Vinci Tech

Beer, one of the world's oldest beverages revered by Pharaohs and brewed by America's Founding Fathers, evolved from prehistoric times through ancient Sumeria, China, and Egypt to today's multi-billion-dollar global craft brewing industry.

Brewing

The sugar industry developed through Caribbean slavery and British control desires; sugar played critical roles in American independence while modern Hawaiian plantations process cane stalks into raw sugar, corn syrup, and various sweetener forms.

Sugar

Electrical linemen repair 345,000-volt power lines from helicopters as part of America's nearly two-century hardwiring story; fiber optic cables transmitting light since the late 1970s remain vital infrastructure alongside wireless technology.

Wiring America

From giant machine presses stamping car bodies to 125-ton chainsaws cutting hardest rock, huge telescopes glimpsing universe ends to world's largest rock crushers; explore massive machines including Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

World's Biggest Machines 4

Today's cowboys blend Old West traditions with modern technology; examine 19th-century cattle industry boom, Spanish-derived saddles and ropes, barbed wire revolution, and modern computer chips, DNA evidence, and artificial insemination techniques.

Cowboy Tech

Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park, created electric lights, power systems, motion pictures, recorded sound, and tattoo pens; his innovations evolved into modern CDs, iPods, satellite radio, and technologies from Internet to outer space.

Edison Tech

The Cape Cod Canal represents an engineering feat many believed impossible; begun in 1909 during the Great Depression, this major commerce and recreational Intracoastal Waterway route showcases determination, ingenuity, and American spirit.

The Cape Cod Canal

June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord springs into action as the greatest WWII machine with thousands of ships, aircraft, thousands of men, and millions of tons of steel; interlocking precision overcomes Hitler's defenses in history's greatest assault.

Machines of D-Day

America's technologically advanced military descends from Civil War innovations; the first modern war introduced machine guns, aerial reconnaissance, battlefield medicine, ironclad ships, and aircraft carriers that revolutionized warfare.

Civil War Tech

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.

Glue

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