Modern Marvels Engineering Disasters

Modern Marvels Engineering Disasters
**The episode desriptions may not be correct; I have yet to find a source that has all the episodes listed and I haven’t had the time**
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Episode 3: Engineering disasters and design flaws are examined. Included: the Leaning Tower of Pisa; the “Texas Tower” radar station off the coast of New Jersey. Also: the Mars Climate Orbiter.
Episode 4: Sinking bridges, deadly fires and sickening collapses serve as lessons to generations of engineers to create a safer future.
Episode 5: Shoddy workmanship, bad planning and poor research combine in these tales of technological woe.
Episode 6: Take an in-depth look at the modern era’s most complex, deadly, and controversial engineering failures.
Episode 7: Five engineering disasters are about to reveal their darkest secrets. They include a dam that suddenly gave way, spilling liquid havoc in a quiet neighborhood, a mysterious plane crash that killed…
Episode 8: A Connecticut bridge collapse, a famous flood and the death of a golfer highlight the latest episode of the popular MODERN MARVELS sub-series.
Episode 9: Once more, MODERN MARVELS turns its eye on the dark side of technological achievement.
Episode 10: A Stalin-era Soviet blunder and the Bhopal disaster highlight this look at engineering gone awry.
Episode 11: Watch as a San Francisco mansion is swallowed by a sinkhole and explore the human causes of one of China’s deadliest “”natural”" disasters.
Episode 12: The Texas A&M bonfire disaster and Denver’s infamous airport luggage system are among the subjects featured in this illuminating hour.
Episode 13: See why Patriot missiles failed during Desert Storm and visit the site of Love Canal.
Episode 14: A flash flood of molasses and a subway cave-in are among the events featured in this episode.
Episode 15: Examine the Mississippi River disaster that was once the worst in maritime history.
Episode 16: Get the inside story behind Mexico’s exploding streets, one of the first major oil spills, and an Italian mining disaster.
Episode 17: Landslides, airport terminal collapses, and too brilliant (literally) design feature in this episode.
Episode 18: Once again, MODERN MARVELS explores the cost–and important legacy–of engineering errors writ large.
Episode 19: We take a “close look” at microscopic structures causing gigantic problems in the electronics industry–tin whiskers, as they are known by researchers, which spontaneously grow from the pure ti
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