The BEST episodes of Modern Marvels season 2
Every episode of Modern Marvels season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Modern Marvels season 2!
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 - Eiffel Tower
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/1995
This episode of Modern Marvels provides an historical tour of Paris's Eiffel Tower. Completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower remains a symbolic icon of France's history and the industrial age. Modern Marvels takes you on a tour of this world famous monument from its inception to the present day.
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#2 - Ocean Liners
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/1994
Luxurious ocean liners rival world-class land resorts.
#3 - Balloons
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/16/1999
More than a century before the Wright brothers, a Frenchman named Pilatre do Rozier took off on the first-ever manned flight. His vehicle was a hot air balloon designed by the brothers Montgolfier. From the ornate contraption filled with air heated by a straw fire that carried Rozier into history to the high-tech, closed capsule masterpieces of today, this episode chronicles the history of these extraordinary craft. It is a story filled with the dreams of fearless pioneers and fueled by everything from propane to solar power. You'll go inside the cabin of a craft designed to tackle the Everest of ballooning--a non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. Examine the many uses balloons have been put to over the years, and hear from the designers and "pilots" who have dedicated their lives to riding the winds. And thrill to incredible footage of all types of balloons filling the air at rallies.
#4 - Golden Gate Bridge
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/1995
More than 50 years after its construction, the Golden Gate remains one of the world's greatest engineering marvels. It took 25-million man-hours and 80,000 miles of cable to complete. But the cost in human life proved even greater.
#5 - Las Vegas
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/14/1995
Born on a patch of desert sand, it's now a neon oasis where nothing is ever what it seems. Its grand hotels and casinos tower over the horizon and prove that size really does matter in Sin City, and the more spectacular the better. Uncover the secrets behind this man made Mecca for gamblers.
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#6 - The Transcontinental Railroad
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/1995
On a somber day in Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln ended his famous address with a promise that the war-torn nation would be reborn. The greatest symbol of that rebirth had already begun, hailed as an engineering feat to rival the pyramids the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Its construction was an engineering marvel and a technological nightmare. The Union Pacific built westward from Omaha, and the Central Pacific eastward from Sacramento, hoping they would someday meet. The work crept inch by grueling inch across the forbidding continent and the treacherous Sierras. Here is the epic tale of the struggle to forge an iron link across the untamed West, and the only engineering feat to spawn an American folk tale: the legend of John Henry. After a decade of work, on May 10, 1869 at Promontory, Utah, as the last symbolic spike linking the two railways was driven, a nation was united and forever transformed.
#7 - Gothic Cathedrals
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/19/1995
From medieval France to present-day America, learn about the work and design that goes into these massive, Gothic structures, from the enormous buttresses to the towering gargoyles to the delicate stained glass windows. Explore the construction and engineering behind these religious monuments and see how little has changed over the past thousand years. Follow the progress of Washington's National Cathedral, the early planning stages as well as the final construction of the cathedral that is larger than Notre Dame and Chartres.
#8 - Domed Stadiums
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1998
In cities with hostile weather, they keep the big game excitement in and the unwanted elements out. Retractable roofs, the cutting edge in stadium design: they slide on rails, roll on wheels, or move on pulleys. These state-of-the-art coverings allow teams to adapt to the climate in a matter of minutes, making weather delays a thing of the past.