The BEST episodes of Modern Marvels season 6
Every episode of Modern Marvels season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Modern Marvels season 6!
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 - Gold Mines
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/31/2000
Around the world and across the eons, gold stands as a symbol of power, wealth, and love. The quest for the yellow metal took men across oceans, into the depths of the Alaskan winter, and miles beneath South African earth. This is the story of the hunters of the precious metal and their methods for extracting it.
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#2 - Trucks
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/22/2000
They are the backbone of the transportation and construction industries. Versatile, vital and ubiquitous, trucks perform jobs from carting off mountains to keeping nations fed.
#3 - Machine Tools
Season 6 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/17/2000
Beginning with the story of the steam engine and traveling forward to modern-day "machining centers" that are used to make incredibly complex space shuttle parts, we'll examine the basic types of machine tools and their development. We'll also look at machine tools of the future that will change the way products are made.
#4 - Great Inventions
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/2000
Wheel; steam engine; railroad; automobile; airplane; printing press; electric light; wireless telegraph; telephone; television; computer.
#5 - Camping Technology
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/6/2000
As camping technology develops, it provides greater access to diverse outdoor environments. The earliest camping technology was developed out of necessity. When men headed off to war, they returned with new camping gear and lightweight materials, which enabled further exploration.
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#6 - Traffic
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/22/2000
Go into air traffic control centers and the planning offices of transportation managers nationwide for a revealing look at a growing crisis.
#7 - Tower Bridge
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/25/2000
A look at London's Tower Bridge, a fine example of Victorian engineering and architecture that has attracted tourists since its inauguration on June 30, 1894, by Edward, the Prince of Wales.
#8 - Combat Training
Season 6 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/6/2000
Sign up at the ultimate survival school, where soldiers learn to kill or be killed. We follow combat training throughout history, reviewing survival skills and psychological tools--from ancient Rome to World Wars One and Two--and learn how modern training is enhanced by advanced technology and computer simulation.
#9 - Aswan Dam
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/11/2000
See how the Aswan High Dam socially, politically, culturally, and agriculturally affected Egypt.
#10 - Buses
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/27/2000
Buses go from an eight-passenger carriage to a wheeled luxury liner.
#11 - The Quest for Muscle
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/26/2000
Explores the desire, the drive, and the methods which people have used throughout the centuries to develop strength for athletic bodies.
#12 - Private Planes
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/12/2000
From vintage aircraft to homemade winged wonders to posh private jets. It's a tale that merges technological progress and the fantasies of an unique type of person, who refuses to be grounded by earth's surly bonds.
#13 - Video Games: Behind the Fun
Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/9/2000
A fun-filled glimpse into the not so distant history of video games. Since inception, the gaming industry has been a driving force in computer technology and video games are one of today's dominant entertainment mediums.
#14 - Farming Technology
Season 6 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/18/2000
The US agricultural process, from seed to shelf, is so efficient that most people don't think much about it. We review the evolution of the tools used to produce food, show the steps in the cycle that bring food to the table, and look at the future of farming.
#15 - Body Shop
Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/16/2000
Part 1 of a two-hour show that goes under the hood and a whole lot farther.
#16 - Space Stations
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/3/2000
Join us on an out-of-this-world exploration of the history of long-duration life in space--from the first Soviet station to Skylab to Mir to the International Space Station. Experience what it is like to live in space, as well as the monumental obstacles engineers and astronauts overcame to make it possible.
#17 - China's Great Dam
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/13/2000
Will it be the concrete key to a new China, or a disaster of epic proportions?
#18 - Police Technology
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/17/2000
When police forces were born in the 1800s, British "bobbies" made due with a billy club. Public wariness and institutional resistance to change held back technological advances for much of the 20th century. But in the last decades, police have been swept up in a technological revolution that has transformed nearly all aspects of crime fighting.
#19 - War Planes of World War II
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/10/2000
World War II sees more planes built in a single year than had been built in the previous 40.
#20 - Concrete
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/31/2000
Invented by the ancient Romans, concrete is a relatively simple formula that changed the world. Concrete has been used to divide an entire country, as in the Berlin Wall, and to unite nations, as in the Chunnel. We'll review the history of this building block of civilization and look at modern applications
#21 - Prisons
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/6/2000
The philosophy and architecture of today's U.S. prisons emerge from those of history.
#22 - Disaster Technology
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/8/2000
Technological tools help science mitigate nature's fury.
#23 - Banks
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/2/2000
The history of financial institutions including the technology they have used in the past and their modern applications.
#24 - The Maginot Line
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/18/2000
Go inside the ambitious fortifications that nevertheless failed to protect France from Nazi aggression.
#25 - Suez Canal
Season 6 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/25/2000
Since its completion in 1869, the Suez Canal has been a vital link in world trade and a point of controversy in geopolitics. Today, more than 20,000 ships transit the canal yearly.