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This comprehensive 14-disc collector's set features the most popular episodes of the groundbreaking Modern Marvels series and covers a broad range of technological breakthroughs and advancements. From environmental catastrophes like the Salton Sea to military blunders like Patriot missle errors, from subway tunnel cave-ins to oil tanker psills, these shows outline in intricate detail the devasting effect of technology gone awry. There is also a complete...
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Sure, we all make mistakes, but when you're at the leading edge of human ingenuity and engineering ambition, one slip, one tiny error, can have almost unimaginable consequences. With over 14 hours of on-the-scene footage, powerful reenactments, expert analysis and graphic reconstructions, this fantastically popular show is the ultimate pre- and post-mortem on the most notorious engineering disasters of the past 40 years.
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Delves into complex and often-tragic engineering failures, including the 1987 failure of New York's Schoharie Creek Bridge; the 1996 partial destruction of the Riverwalk Marketplace in New Orleans by a runaway freighter; the roof collapse at the Rosemont Horizon Arena in Illinois in 1979; the deadliest grain-dust explosion on record; and the crash of the British R101 airship in the 1920s.
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"Examines the following five events: a deadly explosion in Cleveland that killed 128 people in 1944; the collapse of a skywalk that killed 114 people at a Kansas City dance competition; the riveting collapse of a San Francisco mansion into a massive sinkhole; the 1931 Yangtze River floods that killed 145,000 people; and the 'miracle mineral' that turned out to be an invisible killer"--Distributor Web site.
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