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Modern Marvels: World’s Biggest Machines
Every Wednesday @ 8 pm
Modern Marvels returns with humanity’s most extraordinary creations, its amazing architectural and engineering feats, scientific discoveries and social wonders, travelling over land and sea to bring you the biggest, heaviest and tallest machines on the planet, from a dump truck with an 80-ton bucket and a fusion reactor the size of a football field.
World’s Biggest Machines #1 – May 11, 2011 @ 8 pm
Join us for a look at the biggest, heaviest, tallest, longest, meanest machines on the planet! We’ll see what these monsters do and how they operate, and how they’re designed and assembled. Machines investigated include the largest draglines, excavators used in mining; the biggest dump truck; a front-end loader with an 80-ton bucket and the largest tires of any vehicle; the cruise ship, The Voyager of the Seas; a 240-foot tall wind generator; and a fusion reaction machine the size of a football field.
World’s Biggest Machines #2 – May 18, 2011 @ 8 pm
On land, in the air, or on the sea–we examine some of the biggest machines ever built, including: the Antonov AN-225, the world’s biggest aircraft; the GE 90-115B jet engine; the Sikorsky CH-53E helicopter; the Union Pacific’s biggest steam locomotive, the “Big Boy” 4000 and GE’s AC 6000; the Discoverer Enterprise, the world’s largest oil-drilling ship; the RB 293 bucket-wheel mine excavator; and the LED Viva Vision, the world’s largest printing screen, which stretches 4-blocks long in Las Vegas.
World’s Biggest Machines #3 – May 25, 2011 @ 8 pm
Giant, flame-breathing robots. A floating fortress, home to 5,500 sailors, longer than the Empire State Building is tall. And a diesel engine with 108,000 horsepower. (You read that right.) These giants must be seen to be believed! In this episode, we travel over land and sea to find these and more of the biggest, baddest, most audacious feats of engineering in the world.
This program is available in Bahasa Malaysia and Chinese subtitles.
