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A while back, the Harley-Davidson Motor Company teetered on the brink of bankruptcy; today, there are Harley restaurants, clothing lines, even a Harley Barbie; examine this American success story that began in 1903 in a Milwaukee shed.

Modern Marvels

Harley-Davidson

Thomas Edison's electric light is his best known invention, but the familiar light bulb is only the most obvious element of Edison's accomplishment; he also created from scratch a delivery system for his light.

The Edison Effect, The Electric Light

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.

Statue of Liberty

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

Perhaps the most important and yet least recognized aspect of warfare is battlefield engineering; battlefield engineers lay the groundwork, quite literally, for the battle to come.

Battlefield Engineering

For over a century, the U.S. steel industry is a powerful symbol of the nation's industrial might; steel transforms a country of farmers and merchants into a nation of builders, then U.S. domination of the market meets new challenges in the 1970s.

American Steel: Built to Last

In 1973, a desperate America, starved by an OPEC embargo, began construction on an 800 mile lifeline for its oil hunger; study the technological triumph of the Alaskan oil pipeline built over mountains and tundra, where temperatures drop below zero.

The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Every day three million passengers board the 10,000 aircraft flying at any given moment; go behind the scenes at international airports to see ground control towers, cargo holds, high-tech security and customs that make air travel possible.

International Airports

When poliomyelitis swept the nation, thousands died or became disabled before American ingenuity and desperation led to one of history's greatest scientific breakthroughs; witness how polio shaped FDR's vision and made Jonas Salk famous.

The Search for the Polio Vaccine

From Sherlock Holmes' examination of the physical evidence at a crime scene to today's DNA technology, a review of the history of crime detection through the use of forensic science.

Forensic Science: The Crimefighter's Weapon

Examines the history of radar, focusing on its role in the Allies' victory in World War II, from the Chain Home Network, rudimentary radar towers that ringed England's eastern coast, to the role of Boston's MIT in developing an English secret.

Radar

Reviews the revolution in home improvement and glimpses the kitchen of tomorrow, including the development of the stove, sewing machine, refrigerated air, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, toaster, and mixer.

Household Wonders

Features rare construction footage and interviews with architects, the program climbs to the top of the world's largest towers including Seattle's Space Needle, Canada's CN Tower, and Las Vegas's Stratosphere.

Great Towers in the Sky

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Once the revolutionary force that galvanized global communications without wires, radio linked the world a century ago; explore this enduring medium's long evolution from communication breakthrough to today's presence.

S3 E2 | Radio: Out of Thin Air

E20 | Harley-Davidson

E19 | The Edison Effect, The Electric Light

E17 | Statue of Liberty

E16 | Battlefield Engineering

E15 | American Steel: Built to Last

E13 | The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

E11 | International Airports

E7 | The Search for the Polio Vaccine

E6 | Forensic Science: The Crimefighter's Weapon

E5 | Radar

E4 | Household Wonders

E3 | Great Towers in the Sky