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The best of Modern Marvels, the History Channel presents ; produced by Digital Ranch, Jupiter Entertainment, and Hearst/Actuality for The History Channel, Vol. 1

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The best of Modern Marvels

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the History Channel presents ; produced by Digital Ranch, Jupiter Entertainment, and Hearst/Actuality for The History Channel

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Modern marvels

From awe-inspiring buildings and life-changing technological innovations to the worst engineering disasters of all time, Modern Marvels goes behind the scenes of history's most innovative creations and biggest failures

Engineering disasters 4. From a sinking bridge in Seattle, to the world's first commercial jet disaster, Modern Marvels examines the deadly design flaws that have taught engineers to improve the safety of cars, planes, and highwaysEngineering disasters 5. Examines how an entire lake and the surrounding land are sucked into a Louisiana salt mine and a California freeway meets a large earthquake, before going inside the belly of the doomed Exxon ValdezEngineering disasters 6. From the long, deadly development of the Harrier "jump jet" to computer glitches that almost started a nuclear war, Modern Marvels takes an in-depth look at some of the most controversial engineering failures of the modern eraEngineering disasters 7. In this episode, a forty-year old fire still burns in an abandoned mine beneath the streets of Centralia (PA), two hundred sixty million gallons of water surge through a quiet Los Angeles neighborhood, a passenger plane shakes itself apart, and a freighter ship topples a Tampa Bay bridge.

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History Channel presents The best of Modern Marvels, Vol. 1