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Checking out the wonderful world of wood; exploring all the historical, modern and timeless ways people can't live without wood, including sailboats, airplanes, wagon wheels, and charcoal.

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Modern Marvels: World of Wood

Working out with iron; mining, extracting and forging this incredibly versatile metal; ultra-strong magnets; enhanced weapon technology; Martian mining.

Modern Marvels: More Iron

A ride through the dazzling world of chrome; reflecting on the many ways chrome has changed the modern world.

Modern Marvels: Addicted to Chrome

Taking a shine to aluminum; a look at the lightweight, flexible, rust-proof wonder that's become an essential part of how people fly, drive, cook, build cities and even explore the universe.

Modern Marvels: Amazing Aluminum

A sharp look at the cutting-edge tool that changed history, including a bank of six circular saws spinning at 1,750 RPM to a diamond-coated belt saw that can slice through limestone like butter.

Modern Marvels: Super Sharp Saws

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Changing the way people think about coin-operated machines; exploring the ways people spend their quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies every day.

Modern Marvels: Coin Operated Plus

Rediscovering some of the most beloved retro devices that built the tech-driven world of today; diving into some blasts from technology's past.

Modern Marvels: Tech Treasures

Entering the mad world of Nikola Tesla's remarkable inventions; Tesla's 187-foot-high wireless network tower and lifelong rivalry with Thomas Edison; his disturbing death ray and earthquake machines.

Modern Marvels: Mad Electricity Plus

A fascinating journey from farm to table; the dizzying heights of California's date palm trees; the soggy Wisconsin cranberry marshes; the cavernous labyrinths of Pennsylvania's mushroom farms; picking through the most unique forms of harvesting.

Harvesting Plus

Taking a ride on the fastest and most powerful locomotives from around the globe including France's 300 MPH speed train, future trains that glide on cushions of air and mining locomotives that traverse tunnels 700 feet underground.

Locomotives Plus

Climbing aboard the complex rail network that snakes through valleys, over rivers and across prairies to get America's goods from the factory to front doors.

Freight Trains Plus

Two million people wash their car every single day; taking a look at all the technology used to keep those beloved vehicles sparkling clean.

Car Wash Tech

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Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations; covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.

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