Modern Marvels

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1993

8 / 10

Episodes
Overview

HISTORY’s longest-running series moves to H2. Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination found in the world around us. From commonplace items like ink and coffee to architectural masterpieces and engineering disasters, the hit series goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and sometime-schemers that create everyday items, technological breakthroughs and manmade wonders. The hit series goes deep to explore the leading edge of human inspiration and ambition.

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Episodes >>

Space Shuttle

Episode 1

Considered by many to be the most astounding machine ever built, this reusable s...

Brooklyn Bridge

Episode 2

It was an engineering feat of almost miraculous proportions and a design of spec...

Tunnels

Episode 3

There is no more potent demonstration of man’s resolve than the design and const...

Tennessee Valley Authority

Episode 4

During the depths of the Great Depression, it was FDR’s greatest triumph: A mass...

Oil

Episode 5

From the first well in Pennsylvania to the gushing Spindletop and modern superta...

Silver Mines

Episode 6

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The NYC Subway

Episode 7

A trip through time on the New York Subway beginning at the beginning– October 1...

The Railroads That Tamed the West

Episode 8

The year was 1869 and America had just completed the greatest building achieveme...

Paving America

Episode 9

The story of the construction of our grand national highway system, from its beg...

The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Episode 12

Being starved by an OPEC embargo, America is desperate for oil, and in 1973 cons...