Modern Marvels
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First Air DateDec 10, 1993
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ProductionJupiter Entertainment, Six West Media
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Rotten tomato79%
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Original titleModern Marvels
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ReleaseDec 10, 1993
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Overview
HISTORY’s longest-running series moves to H2. Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination found in the world around us. From commonplace items like ink and coffee to architectural masterpieces and engineering disasters, the hit series goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and sometime-schemers that create everyday items, technological breakthroughs and manmade wonders. The hit series goes deep to explore the leading edge of human inspiration and ambition.
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Season 1 ( 1993-12-10)

Grand Coulee Dam

The Empire State Building

The Panama Canal
Cruise Ships

Transatlantic Cable

Mt. Rushmore.

Season 2 ( 1994-12-16)

Balloons

The Transcontinental Railroad

Las Vegas

The Eiffel Tower

Domed Stadiums

Gothic Cathedrals

The Golden Gate Bridge

Ocean Liners

Season 3 ( 1995-08-20)

Space Shuttle

Brooklyn Bridge

Tunnels

Tennessee Valley Authority

Oil

Silver Mines

The NYC Subway

The Railroads That Tamed the West

Paving America
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Season 4 ( 1996-09-02)
America's Highways

The Telephone

Aqueducts

Television

The Computer

Captured Light

Stealth Technology

Pyramids: Majesty And Mystery

Roller Coasters

Observatories: Stonehenge to Space Telescopes

The Great Wall of China.

Season 5 ( 1997-08-17)

Polio Vaccine

The Motion Picture

Satellites.

Radio: Out Of Thin Air

The Electric Light

The Phonograph

Great Towers in the Sky

Household Wonders.

Radar

Forensic Science: The Crime Fighter's Weapon.

The Stock Exchange

NORAD: The War Game Fortress

Earthmovers: The Power to Move Mountains

International Airports

Deep Sea Exploration: Challenging The Abyss

The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

American Steel: Built to Last.

Battlefield Engineering.

Statue of Liberty.

Season 6 ( 1998-07-27)
Demolition

The Atlantic Wall
History of Tall Buildings
Aquariums

Las Vegas Hotels.
The Oakland Bay Bridge.
Monumental Statues

Antibiotics: The Wonder Drugs
The Police Car

Plastics

Medical Imaging

Extreme Sports Gadgets

Bombs

Prosthetics

Weather Prediction

Stereos

Mail Delivery
Clocks

Airships.

Physical Fitness

Engineering Disasters

City Parks

Spy Technology

Battlefield Medicine

U.S. Mints: Money Machines

Rescue Equipment

Scuba And Deep Sea Diving
Offshore Oil Drilling

Dynamite.

Hoover Dam.

Baseball Parks

New York Bridges

Crash Testing

Parachutes
Newspapers

Fireworks
Simulators

The Tool Bench: Power Tools

The Tool Bench: Hand Tools

More Earthmovers.

Forts

Emergency Room

Motorcycles

Security Systems

More Engineering Disasters.
Niagara Power

Casino Technology
Lost Marvels

Season 7 ( 2000-01-03)
The City Beneath Our Feet

Tower Bridge

The Chunnel
Space Stations.

The Pentagon

Bridges.
Prisons

Great Inventions

Office Wonders

Police Technology
Disaster Technology

Concrete
Camping Technology
Private Planes

Race Cars

Traffic
Buses

Gold Mines.

Banks.

The Erie Canal

Trucks

Aswan Dam

China's Great Dam

The Maginot Line

Video Games: Behind The Fun

The Body Shop

Machine Tools

Farming Technology

Assembly Lines

Suez Canal

London Underground

Combat Training.
Remote Operated Vehicles

Death Devices

Power Plants.

Inventions of War.

Plumbing: The Arteries Of Civilzation
Line of Defense

Season 8 ( 2001-01-08)

Battle Gear.
Proving Grounds

Commercial Jets

Apollo 13

Survival Technology

Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel

Garage Gadgets

Construction Machines

Hadrian's Wall

Monster Trucks.

Lighthouses

Computers

Engineering Disasters 3.
Chemical And Biological Weapons
International Airports II

Codes.

The M-16

The Colosseum

The World Trade Center

Hardware Stores

Saloons

More Gadgets

Cattle Ranches

Cannons.

Nuclear Subs

Air Shows

West Point

Quarries.

Diamond Mines
The House
Work Clothes

Bunkers.

Cemeteries.

War Games

Drive-Thru

Times Square
Los Angeles

Glass

Firing Ranges

The St. Louis Arch

Season 9 ( 2002-01-02)

Breweries.

War Planes of World War II

The Winchester

Big Rigs of Combat: Tanks and Jeeps

Tunnels of Vietnam.

Helicopters

Private Jets

James Bond Gadgets.

Remote Control

Million Dollar Tech

Pleasure Boats

Bulletproof.

Siege Machines.

The Junkyard

The F-14

Engines

The Magnum

The Wheel

Star City

Ice Breakers

Fire and Ice.

Muscle Cars

Axes, Swords and Knives.

The World's Biggest Machines.

Drag Racing

The Manhattan Project.

The Tackle Box

Hunting Gear.

Camouflage
Models

Hangars

Beach Technology

The Big Dig

Super Guns

Strategic Air Command.

Gasoline

Towing.

Jet Engines

Nordhausen
War Trains
Liberty Ships of World War II

Magnets

The Chrysler Building.

The Autobahn

Home Tech

Cranes

The Internet: Behind The Web
Sherman Tanks
Great Train Disasters

Secret Life Of The Crash Test Dummy

High Tech Sex

The Spitfire
Garbage

More Bond Gadgets

Limos

Digi-Tech

Salt Mines

Concept Cars

Runways

Failed Inventions.

Season 10 ( 2003-01-01)

Trans-Siberian Railroad

Castles & Dungeons

Ice Road Truckers

Winter Warriors

Booby Traps

The Alcan Highway
Twin Towers of the East

The Mackinac Bridge

Bullet Trains

Non-Lethal Weapons

Space Stations

Army Corps of Engineers
Black Hawk: Night Stalker
Japanese Guns of WWII

Titanic Tech

Coal Mines
Secrets of the Acropolis

Machine Guns

Ball Turret Gunners

U.S. Guns of World War II

MiG 15
T-34: Russian Victory

Tank Crews

Harley-Davidson

Torture Devices

Cosmodrome

Exterminator
Million Dollar Guns

High Voltage

4x4

Dangerous Cargo

Gunslingers
More Engineering Disasters

Engineering Disasters 4

Nature Tech: Tsunamis

Logging Tech

Breaking the Sound Barrier

Car Crashes
Sandhogs
Convertibles

Loading Docks

Terror Tech: Military
Nature Tech: Tornadoes

Military Movers

Police Guns

Terror Tech: Defending the Highrise

Bullets

Aircraft Carrier
The Gunboats of Vietnam

Metal

Landmines

Space Shuttle Columbia

Overseas Highway

Terror Tech: Civilian

Machu Picchu
The PT Boats
The Battleships
Early Machine Guns

Smart Bombs

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

Inviting Disaster 1: Three Mile Island

The Luftwaffe

Panzers

U-Boats

Inviting Disaster 2: The Kursk

FBI's Crime Lab

Inviting Disaster 3: Challenger and Columbia

Inviting Disaster 4, Building Failures

Shipyards
Guns of the Sky

Extreme Trucks
Guns of Infamy

ET Tech
Million Dollar Cars
The Technology of Lewis and Clark
B-52: Stratofortress

Extreme Sports Gadgets
Rolls Royce

Tailgating
Wheel Estate
Sports Cars

Technology of Kitty Hawk

Egyptian Pyramids

The Berlin Wall

Toys

Engineering Disasters 5

Season 11 ( 2004-01-16)
Guns of the Russian Military
The F-15
The Submarines

Pacific Coast Highway

Gangster Guns
Ship of Gold
Racetrack Tech

Oil Fire Fighting

Command Central
Front Line Reporting

Nature's Engineers

Bible Tech
The Power Grid

Bathroom Tech

Engineering Disasters 6
F-18 Hornet

Hydraulics
The Subs of WWII

Plane Crashes

D-Day Tech

A-10 Tankbuster
Rubber
City Water
Greatest Movies Gadgets

Robots

Nuclear Tech

Apollo 11

World War I Tech

Distilleries
Oil Tankers

Athens Subway

Extreme Aircraft

Engineering Disasters 7
George Washington Bridge
Building a Skyscraper: The Skeleton
Building a Skyscraper: The Exterior

Building a Skyscraper: The Human Environment

Building a Skyscraper: The Arteries
The Sears Tower
St. Lawrence Seaway
Guns of WWII
St. Lawrence Tech

Police Pursuit
SOS Tech

More of the World's Biggest Machines

Firefighting: The Arson Detectives
Guns of Israel

Engineering Disasters 8

Harvesting

Engineering Disasters 9
Guns of the Civil War

Engineering Disasters 10

Presidential Movers

Gas Tech

Engineering Disasters 11
The World's Longest Bridge
Japanese Sub at Pearl Harbor
M1 Abrams Supertank!

Engineering Disasters 12
Surveillance Tech

Engineering Disasters 13
Submarine Disasters

Engineering Disasters 14
Movie Theaters
Washington Monument

Engineering Disasters 15

Snack Food Tech

More Dangerous Cargo!

Commercial Fishing
Ancient Discoveries (1)
Ancient Discoveries (2)
Ancient Discoveries (3)

Engineering Disasters 16

Doomsday Tech

More Doomsday Tech
The Computer

Season 12 ( 2005-01-05)
Poison

Car Tech of the Future
The Arch
More Nature's Engineers

World's Biggest Machines 3

Blackbird Stealth

The Butcher

George Washington Carver Tech

Firefighting!: Extreme Conditions

Desert Tech

Sub Zero

The Great Bridge: 8 Miles of Steel

Howard Hughes Tech

Edwards Air Force Base
Taxidermy
SWAT

Deadliest Weapons

The Doomsday Clock

The Basement

Paint
Mega Movers
Punishment

Bricks

Glue
F/A-22 Raptor

Civil War Tech

Machines of D-Day
John Hancock Center
The Cape Cod Canal
Secret Japanese Aircraft of World War II

Future Tech

Edison Tech
Secrets of Soviet Space Disasters
Mountain Roads

Route 66

Cowboy Tech
Sewers

Challenger Tank
World's Biggest Machines 4
Dredging
Lube Job
Secret Luftwaffe Aircraft of World War II
The World's Fastest
The B-2 Stealth Bomber
High Risk: Helicopter Lineman

Wiring America
Nature Tech: Lightning
HMS Victory
Engineering an Empire: Rome

Coffee

Sugar
Cereal: History in a Bowl

F-117 Nighthawk Stealth
German Small Arms of World War II
The Auto Store
Secret Allied Aircraft of World War II

Engineering Disasters 17

Brewing
The Lumberyard

Da Vinci Tech

Custom Cars
More Hardware
Weird Weapons: The Allies

More Snack Food Tech

Walt Disney World
Nature Tech: Hurricanes

Private Collections

Season 13 ( 2006-01-04)

Containers

Fire

Cotton

Engineering Disasters 18

Candy
Weird Weapons: The Axis
Nature Tech: Avalanches

Engineering Disasters: New Orleans
Leather

Engineering Disasters 19

Insulation

Hi-Tech Hitler
Shovels

Drilling

80s Tech

Ben Franklin Tech
Copper Kings

Heavy Metals
Money

BBQ Tech
American Eats Special
High Explosives

Pirate Tech
Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives

World's Biggest Machines 5
Super Tools: Skyscraper
The AK-47

Nuts
Classic Cars
Making Medieval Armor
Rube Goldberg

Batteries

Mummy Tech
Levees

Water

The Cola Wars

Copper
Shotguns

Building In The Name Of God

Horsepower

Renewable Energy

Freight Trains

Cities of the Underworld

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

Stealth & Beyond: Air Stealth
Stealth & Beyond: Sea Stealth

Ink
Distilleries 2

World's Strongest

Tomcat Sunset

Tobacco

The Supermarket

Breakfast Tech

Wine
Harvesting 2

Engineering Disasters 20
Snow

Tea

Christmas Tech
Wind

Season 14 ( 2007-01-17)

Balls

Environmental Tech

Canning

Pumps

Ice
More Ice
The Destroyer
Star Trek Tech

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Barbarian Battle Tech

Dams
Yard Tech
More Military Movers
Deep Sea Salvage

Welding
60s Tech
It Came From Outer Space
World's Strongest II

Engineering Disasters of the '70s

70s Tech
Truck Stops

Fertilizer
Cheese

Saws

Aluminum

Sticky Stuff

Chocolate
Bedroom Tech
Vacuums

Traps
Nature Tech: Volcanoes
Star Wars Tech

Extreme Aircraft II
Deep Freeze

Acid

World's Sharpest
Engineering Disasters 21
Environmental Tech II
Corn
The Pig

Rocks

Most Shocking

Cold Cuts

Fast Food Tech

Season 15 ( 2008-01-07)

Milk

Carbon
90s Tech
Superhighways

World's Strongest III
Strange Weapons

Whiskey

Alaskan Fishing

Bread
Gadgets 3
Locomotives
Rats
Mad Electricity

Axes
Most Dangerous
Super Hot

Lead
Corpse Tech
Ice Cream

Bathroom Tech II

Crashes

Underwear
Batman Tech

Coin Operated

Secrets of Oil
Iron

Wheat
Dangerous Roads
Mold & Fungus
Soft Drinks

Corrosion & Decompositon
Bulls-eye
Halloween Tech
The Horse

The Turkey

Salt
Car Wash
Retro Tech
Super Human
Measure It
Night

Fry It

Mega Meals
Library of Congress

Season 16 ( 2010-01-14)
Dirt
Eggs

The Potato

Tuna
Winter Tech
Breaking Point

Chrome

Start to Finish

Beans
Hot & Spicy

Deliver It

Helicopters

Super Ships
Big & Small
Keep Out
Super Steam
Doors
The Real National Treasure
Top Ten

Season 17 ( 2010-10-29)
Mega Stores

Supersized Food
Coin Operated II
Engineering Disasters 22

Dogs

Built to Last
Secret Underground
Made in the USA
Driver's Seat
Rice
Packaging
Grease
Ropes & Chains
American Trucking

Season 18 ( 2011-10-03)

Inside Your Walls

Built by Hand

Swamp Tech
Pocket Tools
Food Trucks
Weird Machines
More Candy
Battle Ready

Stink
Waterproof
Wood
Convenience Stores

Tiny Weapons
Under Pressure

Shoes
Alaska

Season 19 ( 2013-07-16)

Mega Speed Countdown

Mega Machine Countdown

Mega Weapon Countdown

Mega Food Countdown
Mega Snack Countdown

Super Strong Countdown

Amazing Job Countdown

Strangest Countdown
Hottest Rides Countdown

Amazing Gadgets Countdown

Panama Canal Supersized

Season 20 ( 2021-02-20)

Food: Cookies

Food: Cheese

Food: Ice Cream

Food: Chocolate

Food: Snacks

The Future of Food

Fast Food

Food: Inventions and Innovations

Season 21 ( 2021-07-25)

Adventure Machines

Heavy Machinery

Moving America

Power Tools

Season 23 ( 2022-02-16)

Wild Rides

Steam Power

Ultimate Helicopters

Maximum Horsepower

Dangerous Drives

Car Wash Tech

Freight Trains Plus

Locomotives Plus

Harvesting Plus

Mad Electricity Plus

Tech Treasures

Coin Operated Plus
Bathroom Tech Plus
Yard Tech Plus

