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Featured Videos, Photos & Interactives

• Evolution of the Battlefield Guns
  Evolution of the Battlefield Guns

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  Over the course of several hundred years, guns have undergone changes that have made them more efficient and effective.

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• Extreme BBQ Pits
  Extreme BBQ Pits

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  In Houston, TX, barbecue pits are serious business.

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• Light Energy
  Light Energy

  Video Clip (1:58)

  Harnessing solar energy has a bright future in helping the environment.

  Video Clip (1:58)

• Who Invented the Wheel?
  Who Invented the Wheel?

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  When and where did people first use the wheel for transportation? How was the wheel used before that? Find out more from Modern Marvels.

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• The World's First Power Tools
  The World's First Power Tools

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  Humans have been making tools for more than 2 million years, but the first electric power tool didn't arrive until 1895. What was it and who invented it? From "Modern Marvels."

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• Aircraft Carriers
  Aircraft Carriers

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  In this Modern Marvels video, learn about the history of aircraft carriers and how they originated in 1920 when the Cruiser Jupiter was converted into an aircraft carrier.

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Full Episodes

• Modern Marvels: 90s Tech
  Modern Marvels: 90s Tech

  Full Episode (45:00)

  From DVDs to TIVO to GPS, we'll see how these gadgets started. Modern Marvels: 90s Tech will take you way back to the end of the 20th century and the beginning of today's trendy technologies.

  Full Episode (45:00)

• World's Strongest III
  World's Strongest III

  Full Episode (45:00)

  Modern Marvels takes another look at some of the World's Strongest manmade objects and shows the technology behind these inventions.

  Full Episode (45:00)

• Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project
  Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project

  Full Episode (45:00)

  The Manhattan Project gave birth to the atomic bomb--a theoretically brilliant feat of engineering that introduced a host of ethical dilemnas.

  Full Episode (45:00)