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Miners become trapped underground and struggle to stay alive against a rushing river and rising waterline.

Tech Effect

A cow knocks over a lantern, sending 1871 Chicago into flames.

The Japanese use specialized technology to make their surprise attack on the U.S. fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor.

On Valentine's Day, 1929, Al Capone's thugs murder seven members of a rival gang.

A U-2 spy plane incident fuels a Cold War crisis and escalates an arms race.

Gen. George Washington leads his troops across the treacherous Delaware River.

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima caps three years of research and innovation.

A range of technological advances make the Apollo 11 moon landing successful.

Technology makes things happen; sometimes it changes things for the better, sometimes for the worse.