The BEST episodes of Modern Marvels season 1
Every episode of Modern Marvels season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Modern Marvels season 1!
Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS tells the fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who created everyday items, technological breakthroughs and man-made wonders.
#1 - Grand Coulee Dam
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/10/1993
The world's largest concrete dam--and the second largest concrete structure in the world--lies on the Columbia River in the State of Washington. It is also one of the largest hydroelectric power plants in the wrold, and it's huge irrigation pumps are big enought to pump dry most of the rivers in the United States. It's construction in an isolated and thinly populated area of the U.S. during the Depression years, was one of the greatest achievements of the Work Projects Administration, President Franklin Roosevelt's bid to restore prosperity and jobs to a nation in trouble. Constructed by Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier Co. in 1931, it is 550 feet high and 4,173 feet in length.
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#2 - Panama Canal
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/4/1994
Chronicles one of the most incredible engineering feats of all time: construction of the 51-mile canal that took 10 years to build and employed over 40,000 workers, 6,000 of whom died of yellow fever, malaria, and other horrors. An earlier, 9-year attempt by the French ended in failure and cost 20,000 lives.
#3 - Mount Rushmore
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/29/1994
The incredible tale of how Gutzon Borglum created the world’s largest sculpture by carving the faces of four US presidents (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) into the Black Hills of South Dakota.
#4 - Empire State Building
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/1994
Discover the remarkable story of how this landmark New York City skyscraper was constructed during the depths of the Great Depression.
#5 - Oil
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1995
Oil