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 - 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.
#2 - 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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#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - Aswan Dam
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/11/2000
See how the Aswan High Dam socially, politically, culturally, and agriculturally affected Egypt.
#7 - 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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#8 - 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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#9 - 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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#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Bridges
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/29/2000
Bridges play a key role in the human quest to connect and unify.
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#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Prisons
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/6/2000
The philosophy and architecture of today's U.S. prisons emerge from those of history.
#20 - The Maginot Line
Season 7 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/18/2000
Go inside the ambitious fortifications that nevertheless failed to protect France from Nazi aggression.
#21 - The Space Station
Season 7 - Episode 4 - 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.
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Season 7 - Episode 27 - 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.
#23 - Concrete
Season 7 - Episode 14 - 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
#24 - Engineering Disasters 2
Season 7 - Episode 40 - Aired 12/18/2000
A look at unforeseeable factors and what made these engineering feats into engineering disasters. Some are "fairly bought" like Rocket engineers pushing the technological envelope expect failures as part of the learning curve, but a collapsed roof or burst dam after centuries of engineering experience can only be attributed to sloppy engineering.
