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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

An exciting spin through the history of the casino going behind the neon lights, free drinks, and 24-hour gambling to see how the gaming industry has evolved from a simple house of cards to a high-tech multi-billion dollar industry.

Casino Technology

Throughout history the same builders and engineers that paved man's path out of the caves and into the modern world also caused some of mankind's worst disasters; often a huge calamity is traced back to a tiny cause, but triggering a domino effect.

More Engineering Disasters

Well over two million years before modern man evolved, his primitive ancestors were making tools; the ability to extend the hand and strengthen the arm is considered one of the keys to human evolution.

The Tool Bench: Hand Tools

Fast and powerful, they come in a hundred shapes and a thousand colors; to some, motorcycles symbolize freedom; to others, they simply stand for trouble; episode race back in time and see how, for over a hundred years, motorcycles inspired riders.

Motorcycles

Emergency room medicine has only been a recognized specialty since 1989; episode examines advances that led to the modern emergency room - from the Byzantine's establishment of the first hospitals around 1050 A.D. to today's telemedicine.

Emergency Room

The idea of floating to earth from great heights dates back centuries, and from the beginning parachutes combined entertainment with life-saving utility; the parachute has also played a vital role in modern warfare since WWI.

Parachutes

Delves into the little-known, hugely important, multi-billion-dollar industry of product testing, where wrinkles get ironed out and goods are stripped of marketing and hype to see if they work; meet product testers who serve as truth squads.

Crash Testing

Much of New York City's history can be viewed via its bridges, all 18 that connect Manhattan Island to its neighbors; the episode looks at these architectural masterpieces from the age of iron and steel and show how they have changed destinies.

New York Bridges

A tour of those remarkable edifices of the national pastime, baseball stadiums; from the sandlots and wooden ballparks of the 1800 and 1900s to the monolithic multipurpose stadiums of today, baseball parks have grown into technological wonders.

Baseball Parks

The task was monumental: build the world's largest dam in the middle of the desert, and tame the river that carved the Grand Canyon, all in seven years; when the Hoover Dam was completed in 1935, it was the largest dam in the world.

Hoover Dam

Offshore oil drilling is one of mankind's greatest technological feats; from the beginning of oil discovery, the oceans' vast reserves have been the ultimate frontier; see how these superstructures revolutionized the search for crude oil.

Offshore Oil Drilling

How dynamite has been used in the construction of roads, tunnels and dams. Included: the invention of dynamite.

Dynamite

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S5 E10 | Dynamite

E28 | Casino Technology

E26 | More Engineering Disasters

E25 | The Tool Bench: Hand Tools

E23 | Motorcycles

E22 | Emergency Room

E16 | Parachutes

E15 | Crash Testing

E14 | New York Bridges

E13 | Baseball Parks

E12 | Hoover Dam

E11 | Offshore Oil Drilling

E10 | Dynamite