Episode 1
Aired Jan 10, 2000
The City Beneath Our Feet
Beneath every modern city, hidden by manhole covers, drains, and ventilation grates, lies a labyrinth of tunnels, wires, conduits, and pipes. Subterranean workers show how they build and maintain the city beneath the street.
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Episode 2
Aired Jan 11, 2000
The Chunnel
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.
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Episode 3
Aired Jan 31, 2000
The Internet: Behind the Web
Over 200-million people around the world use the Internet, yet no one owns or controls it.
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Episode 4
Aired Feb 3, 2000
Space Stations
The history of long-duration life in space from the first Soviet station to Skylab to Mir to the International Space Station; 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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Episode 5
Aired Feb 29, 2000
Bridges
From amazing ancient Roman aqueducts and arch bridges, romantic Renaissance spans, 19th-century railroad crossovers, to monumental marvels of our time, bridges played a key role in the human quest to connect and unify.
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Episode 5
Aired Feb 8, 2000
Machine Guns
The machine gun originates in the Civil War.
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Episode 6
Aired Mar 13, 2000
Household Gadgets
Close cousins to machines and tools, gadgets are mechanical or electronic devices that make life a bit easier; the craziest, cleverest, and most brilliant gizmos, meet the often-quirky gadgeteers, and glimpse gadgetry of the future.
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Episode 6
Aired Feb 16, 2000
Big Rigs of Combat: Tanks; Jeeps
History of the tank; jeeps serve as combat cars, snowplows and ambulances.
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Episode 7
Aired Mar 15, 2000
Office Wonders
From the humble paper clip to the revolutionary personal computer, a desk is a museum of miracles designed to make people more productive and efficient; everything you ever wanted to know about the workplace.
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Episode 8
Aired Mar 16, 2000
Great Inventions
Wheel; steam engine; railroad; automobile; airplane; printing press; electric light; wireless telegraph; telephone; television; computer.
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Episode 8
Aired Mar 6, 2000
Prisons
The philosophy, architecture of today's U.S. prisons emerge from those of history.
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Episode 9
Aired May 8, 2000
Disaster Technology
An examination of the historical development of technological tools that help science mitigate nature's fury; the urgency for change that each crisis compelled and innovations designed to lower death tolls.
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Episode 10
Aired May 25, 2000
Tower Bridge
The history of one of the world's most famous bridges, London's Tower Bridge; when it was erected in 1892, it became a postcard image of London, but the famed gothic towers of this pioneering steel structure, sheathed in stone, are purely decorative.
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Episode 11
Aired May 31, 2000
Concrete
Invented by the ancient Romans, concrete is a relatively simple formula that changed the world; it has been used to divide an entire country, as in the Berlin Wall, and to unite nations, as in the Chunnel.
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Episode 12
Aired Apr 10, 2000
War Planes of World War II
World War II sees more planes built in a single year than had been built in the previous 40.
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Episode 12
Aired Jun 6, 2000
Camping Technology
The history of the camping technology, from prehistoric man's rudimentary backpacks to American pioneers pushing the Western boundaries in covered wagons to modern Himalayan mountaineers' carefully engineered clothing, tents, and boots.
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Episode 13
Aired Jun 12, 2000
Private Planes
From vintage aircraft to homemade winged wonders to posh private jets; 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.
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Episode 13
Aired Apr 17, 2000
Police Technology
Technology transforms many aspects of police work.
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Episode 14
Aired Jun 19, 2000
Race Cars
Today, race cars tear up the tracks at 300 m.p.h; computers and space-age composite materials are as much as part of racing as the drivers; the history of the innovations that led to today's technological wonders.
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Episode 15
Aired Jun 22, 2000
Traffic
In less than a century, the world went from dirt tracks to highways, from propeller planes to space travel, from sailboats to supertankers; in the process, a glut of traffic was created on roadways, railways, airways, and seaways.
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Episode 16
Aired Jul 27, 2000
Buses
The building of a bus from the ground up, and the differences in the standard types: transit, school, inter-city, and specialty; a travel down the road of bus history.
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Episode 17
Aired Jul 31, 2000
Gold Mines
Around the world and across the eons, gold stands as a symbol of power, wealth, and love; the story of the hunters of the precious metal and their methods for extracting it.
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Episode 18
Aired Aug 2, 2000
Banks
For centuries, banks enable the creation of wealth; a chronicle of banking, from its early European origins to e-banking; modern technology revolutionizes the way banks do business.
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Episode 19
Aired Aug 14, 2000
The Erie Canal
Begun in 1817, the Erie Canal was an engineering wonder of 363 miles of water highway linking the western frontier to the Atlantic seaboard; it took eight years to construct and thousands of hours of brutal labor.
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Episode 20
Aired Aug 22, 2000
Truck Tech
Trucks transport a staggering 70 percent of all the nation's goods; looking at the amazingly diverse world of American trucks and the colorful men and women who drive them.
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Episode 20
Aired Jun 20, 2000
Sports Cars
A review of fast, high-octane vehicles shows the evolution of the sports car.
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Episode 21
Aired Sep 11, 2000
Aswan Dam
In 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser, needed to harness the flow of the world's longest river: the Nile; how the Aswan High Dam socially, politically, culturally, and agriculturally affected Egypt.
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Episode 22
Aired Sep 13, 2000
China's Great Dam
When finally completed, China's Three Gorges Dam will tower 607 feet in the air and weigh more than forty Great Pyramids; along with China's Great Wall, it will constitute of the two man-made objects visible from the moon.
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Episode 22
Aired Jul 3, 2000
The Battleships
Battleships of World War II carry large, powerful guns.
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Episode 23
Aired Sep 18, 2000
The Maginot Line
The Maginot Line, a defensive string of forts with enfilading firepower, was built by France between World War One and World War Two.
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Episode 24
Aired Sep 26, 2000
Physical Fitness: Quest For Muscle
The strong men and women who go beyond mere fitness to pursue major muscle mass; from ancient Greeks, to performers in the 1800s astounding audiences with feats of strength, to the body builders of California's Muscle Beach.
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Episode 25
Aired Oct 9, 2000
Video Games: Behind the Fun
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.
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Episode 27
Aired Oct 18, 2000
Farming Technology
A review of the evolution of the tools used to produce food, the steps in the cycle that bring food to the table, and the future of farming.
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Episode 28
Aired Oct 19, 2000
Assembly Lines
While the basic principles of the assembly-line technique for mass production haven't changed in over 100 years, the people and the products that exploit the assembly line have.
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Episode 29
Aired Oct 25, 2000
Suez Canal
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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Episode 30
Aired Nov 6, 2000
Combat Training
Combat training throughout history, reviewing survival skills and psychological tools; from ancient Rome to World Wars One and Two, and how modern training is enhanced by advanced technology and computer simulation.
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Episode 31
Aired Nov 8, 2000
Remote Operated Vehicles
From the first remote controlled vehicle to underwater ROVs that locate sunken vessels and explore the ocean floor, to their use by NASA in the space program, how ROVs extend our range into worlds previously unreachable, unknown, or unsafe.
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Episode 32
Aired Nov 13, 2000
Death Devices
The hangman, guillotine, gas chamber are just a few of the ways in which societies have rid themselves of those who committed capital crimes; throughout history, a select few have developed the devices that have carried out the mandate of the people.
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Episode 33
Aired Dec 5, 2000
Power Plants
Mankind controls the environment in a variety of ways, whether by capturing the force of a river, harnessing the power in coal or oil, controlling a nuclear reaction, or transforming the light of the sun into electricity.
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Episode 34
Aired Oct 17, 2000
Machine Tools
Power-driven machines used to make metal parts help build the modern world.
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Episode 34
Aired Dec 12, 2000
Inventions of War
Wartime research and development have revolutionized communication, transportation, and medicine; from Spam to nuclear power to hairspray and cell phones, life as we know it ironically owes a lot to war.
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Episode 35
Aired Dec 18, 2000
Engineering Disasters 2
From Hammurabi's days, when the first building laws were instituted, to today's potential nuclear or chemical disasters that can spell death for thousands, a harrowing tour through some of history's greatest engineering mistakes.
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Episode 36
Aired Dec 19, 2000
Line of Defense
A look in to various historical defenses, including France's Maginot Line; the Atlantic Wall, 3,000 miles of shore fortifications built by Germany in World War Two; and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
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Episode 37
Aired Nov 2, 2000
The London Underground
The world's first underground railway holds London together.
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Episode 41
Aired Nov 14, 2000
The Amphibious Assault Ships
Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations; covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.
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Episode 42
Aired Nov 20, 2000
The Galleons
Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations; covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.
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Episode 45
Aired Dec 13, 2000
Victory At Sea: Mass-Producing Liberty
Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations; covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.
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