Extreme Engineering covers major construction projects from all around the world. Some are futuristic projects that may never be done, others are projects that are on there way to completion.
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In the centuries since the gun was invented, hundreds of innovators, engineers and inventors have brought their vision together to create what has become one of the most perfectly produced items ever made. Tales of the Gun chronicles the long history of firearm design and construction from the first, primitive weapons to today's computer-controlled, high-tech factories. From the gunslingers of the Wild West to the newest technology being developed for tomorrow's super-weapons, guns have etched a place in today's culture for their masterful combination of form, function and beauty.
Signing up for the 2006 season of the most extreme and exciting motorsport, six-part series Engineering the World Rally joins the Subaru World Rally Team as they and 2003 champion, Petter 'Hollywood' Solberg, fight for the championship through six countries and 11 months of intense competition. This ultimate off-road challenge pits massively powerful four-wheel drive rally cars - in the hands of some of the world's greatest drivers - against the toughest and most varied terrain on the planet. These guys hurtle down narrow twisty roads, along bumpy, dusty tracks, through deep water and across solid ice at speeds exceeding 130mph. They're supported by teams of dedicated engineers and mechanics, together with their straight-talking bosses and success-hungry sponsors. It's a world of fragile egos, high emotions and constant human drama. With unprecedented access, Engineering the World Rally gets under the skin of the Subaru WRC team and follows their every move as they engineer and prepare the cars for each event, test and shakedown, and enjoy the highs and suffer the lows of each three-day rally. It is an emotional rollercoaster of action both behind-the-scenes and on the rally stage.
Extraordinary structures, buildings and machines around the world have been transformed from their original function into something completely different. Experts reveal how.
MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.
Based on archival footage, appreciates engineering genius and celebrates the long-term survival of the ‘jumbo jet’.
Britain's iconic and 'secretive' engineering companies reveal how they build the world's most amazing machines. The first part of the series "How to build a nuclear submarine" a documentary following the construction of the Astute nuclear submarine. The second part of the series "How to build a jumbo jet engine", the story of the thousands of people who design, build and test engines at Rolls-Royce’s manufacturing plants in Derby and across the UK, making Rolls-Royce a central part of life for the people of places like Derby. The third and final part of the series "How to build Britain's secret engineers" when the documentary team follows workers at a leading British company on a global journey, as they reveal a handful of their secretive projects including getting Chinook helicopters ready for front line service.
The three-part series tells the story of British architects Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Michael Hopkins and Terry Farrell.
Swapping spatulas for spanners, the Hairy Bikers restore amazing relics of Britain's past.
Investigating mankind's insatiable necessity to move faster and further; for pleasure, for work, to explore, to survive.
Ancient Impossible, the new H2 series, picks up where HISTORY’s long running Ancient Discoveries left off. In this next generation of storytelling, Ancient Impossible reveals how many of today’s technological achievements were actually developed centuries ago. Colossal monuments, impossible feats of engineering and technologies so precise they defy reinvention–the ancient world was far more advanced than we ever imagined. We’ll travel through history to reveal a radically different picture of the past, with innovations so far ahead of their time, they’re still in use today. New science uncovers a lost world more like our own than we ever suspected, and reveals how modern technology has its blueprint in the ancient world.
The Secret Life of Machines is an educational television series presented by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod, in which the two explain the inner workings and history of common household and office machinery. According to Hunkin, the show's creator, the programme was developed from his comic strip The Rudiments of Wisdom, which he researched and drew for the Observer newspaper over a period of 14 years. Three separate groupings of the broadcast were produced and originally shown between 1988 and 1993 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, with the production subsequently airing on The Learning Channel and the Discovery Channel.
In a "nation of middle-class" the IIT dream involves clearing the world's toughest public exam for guaranteed lifelong success. Life is not an exam though. It's a hustle, one that nobody trains them for. The result? Eternal tumult.
Submarines today are highly complex machines crammed with technology and weapons. As impressive as their construction is, as terrifying is their destructive power. Hardly any other weapon triggers as many emotions as the submarine. It strikes from ambush and can use nuclear missiles to drag the whole world into the abyss. Submarines originated from a completely non-military idea, namely to be able to view the world under water. But the interest in the military use of submarines soon prevailed.
Mega Manufacturing takes the viewer behind the scenes of the biggest or the most advanced factories in the world, focusing on the creation of inimitable products that are of its own kind.
What propelled the construction of higher and higher buildings? Which technologies made the discovery of the oceans possible? How are gravity defying bridges designed? What will the future of the aircraft industry be? Combining bluechip photography with innovative CGI, all set in spectacular locations across the world, this documentary series highlights the history of human ingenuity.
This is your chance to reach out and touch the past! Just as a forensic anthropologist analyses bones, and a historian deciphers ancient texts, we now have the technology to "read" the buildings, ruins and landscapes where history was made. The series, presented by Dallas Campbell, teams Steve Burrows (pictured), the brains behind the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, with a team of pioneering laser scanning experts from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Technologies to unlock the secrets of the world’s greatest engineering and cultural achievements. Locations include the Colosseum, Petra, Machu Picchu, St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Pyramids and Jerusalem.
The triumphs and failures of the men and women who created the world's first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. This the story of the men and women who worked on a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during the Second World War with First-hand accounts from the men and women who worked on the Manhattan Project and developed the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during the Second World War.
It is 2014 and the machines have not taken over…yet. The newest, most technologically advanced series from H2™, Rise of the Machines, reveals how the inventions behind the world’s most extreme machines have enabled them to evolve beyond humanity’s wildest imagination. This visually stunning series uses mind-blowing CGI animations to reveal the extraordinary engineering at the heart of the world’s most extreme machines. From the world’s biggest mega truck to the world’s fastest train to a revolutionary heavy lift ship, ground breaking CGI animation explodes the machines apart to reveal the ingenious inventions hidden under their skin that enables the teams who drive, fly and sail them to be at the top of their game. This series takes us inside these machines in close up detail and explores what helps these elite ships, trucks, trains and aircrafts rise above all others.
They are the high-flying pride of the U.S. military, one-of-a-kind warriors that, over the decades, collectively revolutionized aerial warfare. Through rare, archival footage and compelling testimonies, meet the men and women who fly and maintain these Air Warriors and see how they've overcome incredible obstacles to rule the sky.
Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines was a six-part documentary series, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1998. The series focused on presenter Jeremy Clarkson, testing out a series of cars, jet planes and powerboats.
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10 episodes • 2003
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tokyo's Sky City | Apr 13, 2003 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Subways in America | Apr 15, 2003 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Transatlantic Tunnel | Apr 16, 2003 | 0.0 |
| 4 | City in a Pyramid | Apr 23, 2003 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Bridging the Bering Strait | Apr 30, 2003 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Tunneling Under the Alps | May 7, 2003 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Building Hong Kong's Airport | May 14, 2003 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Holland's Barriers to the Sea | May 21, 2003 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Boston's Big Dig | May 28, 2003 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Widening the Panama Canal | Jun 4, 2003 | 0.0 |
9 episodes • 2004
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turning Torso | Jul 7, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Venice Flood Gates | Jul 14, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Container Ships | Jul 28, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Oakland Bay Bridge | Aug 4, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Iceland Tunnels | Sep 1, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Off-shore Oil Platforms | Sep 25, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Cooper River Bridge | Oct 5, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Millau Viaduct | Nov 15, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Excavators | Nov 22, 2004 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 2005
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Snohvit Arctic Gas Processing Platform | Oct 19, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 2 | The El Cajon Dam | Nov 10, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Hong Kong's Cable Car | Dec 2, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Woodrow Wilson Bridge | Dec 9, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Gotthard Tunnel | Jan 1, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Dubai's Ski Resort | Jan 21, 2006 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 2006
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Super Stadium | Feb 19, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Mega Tunnel | Mar 8, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Biggest Warship | May 31, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Sakhalin Oil & Ice | Jun 28, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Big Easy Rebuild | Jul 5, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Space Tower | Jul 12, 2006 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 2006
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Ferry Subway Station | Oct 11, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 2 | World's Biggest Arch Bridge | Oct 18, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 3 | JFK: JetBlue Terminal | Oct 25, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Stonecutters Bridge: Hong Kong | Nov 1, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 5 | California Academy of Sciences | Nov 8, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Hallandsas Ridge Tunnel: Sweden | Nov 15, 2006 | 0.0 |
14 episodes • 2007
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coaster Build Off | Jul 10, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Battle Machines | Jul 17, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 3 | World's Tallest Skyscraper | Jul 24, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Super Fast Warship | Aug 7, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Boot Camp | Aug 14, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Fault Zone Tunnel | Aug 21, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Hurricane-Proof Homes | Aug 28, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Floating City | Sep 4, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Biggest Casino | Sep 11, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 10 | High Risk Tower | Sep 18, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Turbo-Charged Boats | Sep 25, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Mountain of Steel | Oct 3, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Deepest Tunnel | Oct 10, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Major League Stadium | Oct 17, 2007 | 0.0 |
8 episodes • 2009
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dallas Cowboys Stadium | Apr 20, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 2 | CityCenter, Las Vegas | Apr 21, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Hong Kong Bridge | Apr 27, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Navy Amphibious Warship | May 4, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Panama Canal | May 11, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Peru Dam & Tunnel | May 18, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Abu Dhabi | Jun 1, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 8 | NASA | Jun 26, 2009 | 0.0 |
10 episodes • 2010
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore Sky Park | Apr 8, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Rio De Janerio's Power Island Project | Apr 15, 2001 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Kuwait Tower | Apr 29, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 4 | New Orleans Surge Barrier | May 9, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 5 | South Africa's Mponeng Gold Mine | May 13, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Overhauling the Bay Bridge | May 20, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Melbourne Stadium | May 27, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Gotthard Base Tunnel | May 30, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Abu Dhabi Central Market | Jun 17, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Port of Rotterdam | Jul 1, 2010 | 0.0 |
8 episodes • 2011
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rebuilding New York City's Subway | Apr 8, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Drought-Proofing Australia | Apr 15, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Azerbaijan's Amazing Transformation | Apr 22, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 4 | London's Olympic Aquatic Stadium | Apr 29, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Constructing Serbia's Largest Bridge | Jun 18, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Amsterdam's Futuristic Floating City | Jun 25, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Building Mumbai's Modern Airport | Jul 2, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Turkey's Mammoth Hydropower Dam | Jul 9, 2011 | 0.0 |