Free download modern marvels season 26 episode 11

Twice the size of Manhattan, it was the final vision and crowning achievement of a man who spent more than 40 years pushing the limits of technology to create entertainment magic: Walt Disney. On this episode of Modern Marvels we'll construct, and deconstruct, the roundabout ribbons that comprise the world's Superhighways. Our road trip starts in Houston, Texas where a multi-billion dollar expansion project is widening a stretch of superhighway to a spacious 20 lanes.

We'll take a ride atop the High-Five, a 12 story, five level interchange that's become the latest Dallas tourist attraction.

We'll go to MIT and discover how a single distracted driver can cause a major traffic jam. We'll take a ride along two of the most stunning superhighways in the world, I through Glenwood Canyon and H-3 on the island of Oahu, and learn why building them was anything but paradise.

Finally, we'll play a cutting edge video game that's training emergency personnel how to unclog a clogged superhighway. Explore the hottest trends in gadgets, how they've evolved and where they're going. See how the latest miniaturized, mobile gadgetry can fit all the technology that once filled an entire office into a single briefcase.

Visit Brookstone, the ultimate gadget store. We'll meet a gadget collector who's turned his home into a gadget museum. And we'll visit basement inventors who have developed everything from an iron you slip over your hand to smart appliances that talk back. Revisit some of the original gadgets like the corkscrew and zipper and see how some gadgets evolve into new forms.

Discover which gadget inventors may hold tomorrow's hottest new trends and learn why some gadgets succeed while others crash and burn. Ride on the little engines that could as they guide giant ships through the Panama Canal. Watch two locomotives crash head-on as the federal government monitors safety. Descend feet below the earth's surface where mining locomotives move miners through a maze of tunnels. Then, it's a "jiffy lube" for locomotives inside America's largest maintenance shop.

Finally, glide into the future with a locomotive that levitates on a cushion of air. It's the basic source of nourishment for half the world--bread. Bake it, roast it, slice it, toast it--it's a wonder that three simple ingredients, flour, water and salt, can be transformed into so many different shapes and tastes. From baguettes to pita, from corn bread to flour tortillas, every culture finds a way to make it and bake it.

Modern arsenals have become much more sophisticated than bullets and bombs. Discover microwave-like rays that make the enemy flee when they feel the heat and laser weapons, mounted on trucks and airplanes that can blow missiles out of the sky. Some of the newest non-lethal weapons include a B. Finally examine ancient weapons that include a cutlery set containing hidden pistols and Ninja hand claws that would put the X-Men's Wolverine to shame.

Witness some mind-blowing feats of strength starting with the world's most powerful elevators--one lifts fighter jets, the other lifts a giant stage filled with acrobats. Discover the world's strongest tire and the monster mine machine it rolls with. Take a foot drop on the world's strongest mountain bike. See the world's strongest land transport vehicle that carries the Space Shuttle. Finally mix some drinks or chop a telephone into dust with the biggest and strongest home blender you've ever seen.

The dot com decade opened up the information superhighway and for the first time, people could shop, search, and surf online with the click of a mouse. Take a trip back to the end of the 20th century and the beginning of today's trendy technologies and see how the gadgets we can't live without all started in the 90s.

Learn about the science of creating an Internet search engine and explore how virtual pet toys were born. On Modern Marvels: Milk, we'll visit a farm with a milking parlor for 80 cows that looks more like a bovine merry-go-round. At the Driftwood Dairy processing plant, we'll find out what's so hot about pasteurization.

At Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, we'll tip a glass with one of the top dairy tasting teams in the country, as they sip, swish, and spit out various milks. We'll peek inside one of the world's largest butter churns, located at the Darigold Creamery in Issaquah, Washington, and we'll visit one of Dannon's busy plants to see what's so active about yogurt. We'll even milk a yak with an artisan cheese-maker outside of Seattle, Washington. Get ready to meet more breeds of dairy cows than you knew existed, and to find out if milk really does the body good.

All life forms, including us, are built upon atoms of carbon. But modern technology is also built on a foundation of carbon.

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.

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