Modern Marvels
Season 11 Episode 59 - Engineering Disasters 12
In Milwaukee, 104 died after drinking contaminated tap water. At Texas A&M;, a tradition turned tragic when a pile of bonfire logs collapsed onto its builders. Thousands of US soldiers expired in known WWII deathtraps–Sherman Tanks. In 1973, 14 men working on a 26-story building died when supports were removed from wet concrete. And in 1993, Denver’s “dream” airport became a nightmare when its baggage-handling system ran amok. Aided by computer graphics, catastrophe footage, and visits to the locations today, MIT scientists, Center for Disease Control experts, WWII vets, bonfire builders, and construction engineers explain these tragedies and measures taken to prevent them in future.
Episodes in Season 11
Guns of the Russian Military
44 min
The F-15
44 min
The Submarines
44 min
Pacific Coast Highway
44 min
Gangster Guns
44 min
Ship of Gold
44 min
Racetrack Tech
44 min
Oil Fire Fighting
44 min
Command Central
44 min
Front Line Reporting
44 min
Nature's Engineers
44 min
Bible Tech
44 min
The Power Grid
44 min
Bathroom Tech
44 min
Engineering Disasters 6
44 min
F-18 Hornet
44 min
Hydraulics
44 min
The Subs of WWII
44 min
Plane Crashes
44 min
D-Day Tech
44 min
A-10 Tankbuster
44 min
Rubber
44 min
City Water
44 min
Greatest Movies Gadgets
44 min
Robots
44 min
Nuclear Tech
44 min
Apollo 11
44 min
World War I Tech
44 min
Distilleries
44 min
Oil Tankers
44 min
Athens Subway
44 min
Extreme Aircraft
44 min
Engineering Disasters 7
44 min
George Washington Bridge
44 min
Building a Skyscraper: The Skeleton
44 min
Building a Skyscraper: The Exterior
44 min
Building a Skyscraper: The Human Environment
44 min
Building a Skyscraper: The Arteries
44 min
The Sears Tower
44 min
St. Lawrence Seaway
44 min
Guns of WWII
44 min
St. Lawrence Tech
44 min
Police Pursuit
44 min
SOS Tech
44 min
More of the World's Biggest Machines
44 min
Firefighting: The Arson Detectives
44 min
Guns of Israel
44 min
Engineering Disasters 8
44 min
Harvesting
44 min
Engineering Disasters 9
44 min
Guns of the Civil War
44 min
Engineering Disasters 10
44 min
Presidential Movers
44 min
Gas Tech
44 min
Engineering Disasters 11
44 min
The World's Longest Bridge
44 min
Japanese Sub at Pearl Harbor
44 min
M1 Abrams Supertank!
44 min
Engineering Disasters 12
44 min
Surveillance Tech
44 min
Engineering Disasters 13
44 min
Submarine Disasters
44 min
Engineering Disasters 14
44 min
Movie Theaters
44 min
Washington Monument
44 min
Engineering Disasters 15
44 min
Snack Food Tech
44 min
More Dangerous Cargo!
44 min
Commercial Fishing
44 min
Ancient Discoveries (1)
44 min
Ancient Discoveries (2)
44 min
Ancient Discoveries (3)
44 min
Engineering Disasters 16
44 min
Doomsday Tech
44 min
More Doomsday Tech
44 min
The Computer
44 min
