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Engineering Disasters: With Lyndon B. Johnson, Roger McCarthy, Story Musgrave, Ralph Nader. Features The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 and other engineering disasters.
It's a chapter of complex, deadly and controversial engineering failures, using 3-D animation, forensic engineering experts, and footage of the actual disasters to understand what went...
More Engineering Disasters: With Harlan Saperstein, William Atwater, Frank O. Bravnard, Philip B. Crosby. Rocket engineers pushing the technological envelope expect a crash or two or hundred. But a collapsed roof or burst dam can only be attributed to sloppy engineering.
Engineering Disasters: With Tom Cotcher, Jeff Wise, Jim Record, Phil Derner. Spun off from Modern Marvels, Engineering Disasters spotlights what happens when human error and the right circumstances conspire to create major disasters and tragedies.
May 6, 2023 · In this episode, we travel over land and sea to find more of the biggest, baddest, most audacious feats of engineering in the world. See more in Season 11, E...
Feb 22, 1999 · S 4 E 29. Engineering Disasters. Feb 22, 1999 |. From the Colossus of Rhodes and Egypt’s pyramids to the Hoover Dam and the Space Shuttle, mankind has celebrated the work of engineers. But what...
Full episodes of History Channel Modern Marvels special on engineering disasters.
Nov 22, 1995 · Often a huge calamity is traced back to a tiny cause, insignificant in itself, but triggering a domino effect. We’ll revisit notable disasters and search for probable causes.
Apr 16, 2001 · Engineering Disasters 3: With Donald R. Abbott, Matthew Bencke, Robert Cutler, Peter Dirkmaat. The background in the disasters that caused the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a 1961 nuclear accident in Idaho, the U.S. Air Force, Texas Tower radar station and the space disasters of Soyuz 11, the Mars Polar Lander, and Mars Climate Orbiter.
May 27, 2008 · From the Exxon Valdez disaster to a nuclear meltdown at a secret government facility, to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, MODERN MARVELS chronicles over 40 of history s most devastating catastrophes and reveals the lessons learned from each one.
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