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Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination on a grand scale, "Modern Marvels" tells the amazing stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who create everyday items, technological advancements and man-made wonders. From the Statue of Liberty to distilled spirits, and canals to bridges, no subject seems out of reach. Science, technology, electronics, mechanics, engineering, architecture, industry, mass production, manufacturing, and agriculture are just some of the many topics that have been covered during the long-running series.
S8, EP29 "Gasoline"
Traces the history and evolution of the world's most important fossil fuel; without gasoline, modern life would grind to a halt.
S14, EP20 "Secrets of Oil"
Rubber, plastic, nylon, aerosols, resins, solvents, and lubricants, none can exist without oil; the secrets of oil and the many products it has spawned; oil refinery in California; chemical weapons suits; making asphalt; blending jet fuel; Vaseline.
S13, EP17 "Truck Stops"
Catering to more than twenty million truckers, truck stops are bigger and better than ever; these mega-pit stops are essential to the trucks and truckers that haul eight billion tons of freight annually.
S6, EP20 "Trucks"
Trucks transport a staggering 70 percent of all the nation's goods; looking at the amazingly diverse world of American trucks and the colorful men and women who drive them.
