Modern Marvels
Season 13 Episode 40 - Horsepower
Buckle up for a rip-roaring ride through the world of extreme horsepower. Experience the fastest accelerating cars on earth. Find out how horsepower was first coined as a marketing tool for the steam engine in the early 1800s and meet the horsepower police--the Society of Automotive Engineers who test today's most powerful car engines. Feel the amazing power of Unlimited Hydroplane racing as 3-ton boat-beasts careen across water at speeds of over 200 miles per hour. Journey to the bowels of an enormous container ship where the world's most powerful diesel engine provides over 100,000 horsepower. At the Hoover Dam, watch as it harnesses the enormous power of water. Explore the 80,000 horsepower pumping units at the Edmonston Pumping Plant that delivers 2-billion gallons of water a day to thirsty Californians. And sit behind the steering wheel of a new generation of hybrid cars that boast 400-horsepower yet get 42 miles per gallon of gas.
Episodes in Season 13
Containers
44 min
Fire
44 min
Cotton
44 min
Engineering Disasters 18
44 min
Candy
44 min
Weird Weapons: The Axis
44 min
Nature Tech: Avalanches
44 min
Engineering Disasters: New Orleans
44 min
Leather
44 min
Engineering Disasters 19
44 min
Insulation
44 min
Hi-Tech Hitler
44 min
Shovels
44 min
Drilling
44 min
80s Tech
44 min
Ben Franklin Tech
44 min
Copper Kings
44 min
Heavy Metals
44 min
Money
44 min
BBQ Tech
44 min
American Eats Special
44 min
High Explosives
44 min
Pirate Tech
44 min
Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives
44 min
World's Biggest Machines 5
44 min
Super Tools: Skyscraper
44 min
The AK-47
44 min
Nuts
44 min
Classic Cars
44 min
Making Medieval Armor
44 min
Rube Goldberg
44 min
Batteries
44 min
Mummy Tech
44 min
Levees
44 min
Water
44 min
The Cola Wars
44 min
Copper
44 min
Shotguns
44 min
Building In The Name Of God
44 min
Horsepower
44 min
Renewable Energy
44 min
Freight Trains
44 min
Cities of the Underworld
44 min
Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
44 min
Stealth & Beyond: Air Stealth
44 min
Stealth & Beyond: Sea Stealth
44 min
Ink
44 min
Distilleries 2
44 min
World's Strongest
44 min
Tomcat Sunset
44 min
Tobacco
44 min
The Supermarket
44 min
Breakfast Tech
44 min
Wine
44 min
Harvesting 2
44 min
Engineering Disasters 20
44 min
Snow
44 min
Tea
44 min
Christmas Tech
44 min
Wind
44 min
