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| 14 :02x01 - Black Gold (Jun/29/2005) | | A look at companies in Canada's Alberta forest that are attempting to develop technologies that will allow oil to be extracted from sand below the surface. | |
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| 15 :02x02 - Ekati Diamond Mine (Jul/27/2005) | | Three mining machines at the Ekati diamond mine in Canada's Northwest Territories. Included: the D90 rotary blast drill; the DeMag 655 hydraulic shovel; the CAT 793C haul truck. | |
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| 16 :02x03 - Sea Launch (Aug/03/2005) | | Examining Sea Launch, a multinational venture for sending commercial satellites into space from ships. Featured: engineering successes, including the launch of the heaviest commercial payload (nearly six tons), and several spectacular failures. | |
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| 17 :02x04 - USS Virginia (Sep/04/2005) | | Examining construction of the USS Virginia, the first major redesign in nuclear submarines since the end of the Cold War. | |
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| 21 :02x08 - Super Port (Sep/20/2005) | | Examining the Port of Rotterdam, as it receives three large, challenging ships. | |
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| 22 :02x09 - Mega Plane (Sep/20/2005) | | The Galaxy C-5, a plane that's six stories high with a wingspan of 223 feet, a cruising speed of 490 mph, and a cargo compartment as big as an eight-lane bowling alley. | |
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| 24 :02x11 - Ultimate Casino (Oct/18/2005) | | Examining the designing and building of the Venetian Hotel Resort Casino in Nevada by billionaire developer Sheldon Adelson. Included: two subsequent additions to the project. | |
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| 25 :02x12 - Ultimate Roller Coaster Rider (Oct/25/2005) | | Structural and technical details of the Kingda Ka roller coaster in New Jersey, which reaches speeds of 128 MPH and includes a 90-degree incline 45 stories high. | |
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| 26 :02x13 - Norad (Nov/08/2005) | | Examining construction of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in the Colorado mountains. Included: the technical challenges it presented. | |
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| 27 :02x14 - Berlin's Grand Central (Nov/15/2005) | | Examining the construction of Berlin's Grand Central, planned as the largest train station in Europe with nearly 2 million feet of space. | |
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| 28 :02x15 - Boston's Big Dig (Nov/22/2005) | | Tracing the 20 years of planning and construction of Boston's Big Dig, the 7.8-mile downtown highway bridge-and-tunnel project that replaces an elevated highway. | |
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| 29 :02x16 - Ultimate Oil Rig (Dec/06/2005) | | A report on offshore oil drilling visits an oil rig in the North Sea and a Singapore shipyard where 23 rigs are under construction. | |
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| 30 :02x17 - Hi-tech Prison (Dec/13/2005) | | Touring the North Branch Correctional Institution, a technologically advanced maximum-security facility in Cumberland, Md. | |
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| 31 :02x18 - World's Tallest Bridge (Dec/20/2005) | | The "World's Tallest Bridge" examines the Millau Viaduct over the River Tarn in southern France. Built over a gorge between two plateaus, the cable-stayed 1.5-mile viaduct is 336 meters high at its highest point, taller than the Eiffel Tower. Construction began in 2001 and was completed in 2004. | |
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| 32 :02x19 - Mega Ship (Dec/27/2005) | | A voyage on the Atlanta, a 134,000-ton "megaship" operated by the Orient Overseas Container Line. Footage of the Atlanta, which began sailing in 2005, is shown as it negotiates its way through the Singapore and Malacca Straits into the South China Sea. | |
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| 33 :02x20 - Diamond Diggers (Dec/23/2005) | | The frozen Ekati Mine is the setting of this documentary on workers and machines that dig for diamonds. | |
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| 34 :02x21 - Port of Rotterdam (Dec/30/2005) | | The Port of Rotterdam is examined. Included: a look at how it operates in regard to rough currents and narrow channels. | |
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| 35 :02x22 - Berlin Wall (Mar/14/2006) | | A history of the Berlin Wall, the “wall of shame” that divided East and West Germany from 1961 to 1989. The hour chronicles escape attempts and how East German authorities responded to them, and also recalls the opening of the Wall on Nov. 9, 1989. East and West Germany were formally reunited a year later. | |
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| 36 :02x23 - Impossible Bridges: Denmark to Sweden (Apr/18/2006) | | Chronicling the construction of the Oresund Bridge, a 10-mile span linking Denmark and Sweden that opened to auto and rail traffic in 2000. The link---from Copenhagen to Malmo, Sweden's third largest city---includes a tunnel and an artificial island, and took five years to construct. | |
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| 38 :02x25 - Impossible Bridges: Greece (May/02/2006) | | Charting the construction of Greece's Rion-Antirion Bridge, a nearly 2-mile span over the Gulf of Corinth that also crosses a seismic fault line. | |
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| 39 :02x26 - Hoover Dam (May/16/2006) | | Exploring Nevada's Hoover Dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. The 726-foot dam weighs more than 6,600,000 tons and is 660 feet thick at its base. Completed in 1936, it can store up to two years' worth of the Colorado's average water flow, and generates four billion hours of hydroelectric power a year. | |
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| 41 :02x28 - Millau Bridge (May/26/2006) | | The making of the Millau Viaduct in France, the world's tallest bridge, is examined in this documentary. | |
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