The BEST episodes of Modern Marvels season 7
Every episode of Modern Marvels season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Modern Marvels season 7!
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 - Tower Bridge
Season 7 - Episode 13 - 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.
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#2 - Death Devices
Season 7 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/13/2000
The hangman, guillotine, gas chamber, firing squad, and electric chair are just a few of the ways in which societies have rid themselves of those who committed capital crimes. The macabre history of execution mechanics--from the first "stone" of antiquity, the dungeons of the Inquisition, and Nazi death camps to today's sterile injection chambers.
#3 - Body Shop Part 1
Season 7 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/16/2000
Part 1 of a two-hour show that goes under the hood and a whole lot farther.
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#4 - Suez Canal
Season 7 - Episode 33 - 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.
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#5 - Inventions of War
Season 7 - Episode 39 - Aired 12/12/2000
Arising from the horrible carnage, deprivation, and suffering caused by war is a countless array of everyday items--from hairbrushes to microwaves--that directly descend from wartime innovations.
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#6 - Camping Technology
Season 7 - Episode 15 - 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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Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2000
Workers build and maintain urban infrastructures underground.
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#8 - Banks
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/2/2000
The history of financial institutions including the technology they have used in the past and their modern applications.
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#9 - Body Shop Part 2
Season 7 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/16/2000
Part 2 of a two-hour show that goes under the hood and a whole lot farther.
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#10 - Aswan Dam
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/11/2000
See how the Aswan High Dam socially, politically, culturally, and agriculturally affected Egypt.
#11 - The Erie Canal
Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/14/2000
It was a 363-mile highway linking the western frontier to the Atlantic seaboard. It shaped the history of the nation and transformed New York City from a minor seaport into a commercial capital.
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#12 - Gold Mines
Season 7 - Episode 20 - 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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Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/27/2000
Buses go from an eight-passenger carriage to a wheeled luxury liner.
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#14 - Race Cars
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/19/2000
Today, race cars tear up the tracks at 300 mph. Computers and space-age composite materials are as much as part of racing as the drivers. They're fast, they're thrilling, and they've gone high-tech. We'll review the history of the innovations that led to today's technological wonders.
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Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/8/2000
Technological tools help science mitigate nature's fury.
#16 - Private Planes
Season 7 - Episode 16 - 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.
#17 - Farming Technology
Season 7 - Episode 32 - 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.
#18 - Trucks
Season 7 - Episode 23 - 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.
#19 - Great Inventions
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/16/2000
Wheel; steam engine; railroad; automobile; airplane; printing press; electric light; wireless telegraph; telephone; television; computer.
#20 - Traffic
Season 7 - Episode 18 - 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.
#21 - Police Technology
Season 7 - Episode 11 - 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.
#22 - War Planes of World War II
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/10/2000
World War II sees more planes built in a single year than had been built in the previous 40.
#23 - Bridges
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/29/2000
Bridges play a key role in the human quest to connect and unify.
#24 - The Chunnel
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/11/2000
The job of joining Britain and France via a tunnel under the English Channel was a challenge. Geologists tracked the only safe route with satellite technology, and French and British teams drilled towards each other using two of the largest Tunnel Boring Machines ever made. We'll explore the greatest underwater land-link of all time.
#25 - Machine Tools
Season 7 - Episode 31 - 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.