NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Deadliest Trains
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 5/17/2018
The world's toughest trains have conquered deadly jungles, deserts, and mountains, and were made possible by expert engineering and cutting-edge technology.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Mega City Trains
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 5/31/2018
The world's busiest cities are kept running by innovative train systems built with expert engineering and cutting-edge technology.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Trains of the Abyss
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 6/7/2018
The world's most incredible trains cross deadly canyons and chasms of terrifying heights, and were made possible by expert engineering and cutting-edge technology.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Trains of Deadly Seas
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 6/21/2018
The world's most incredible trains have conquered dangerous oceans and seas, and were made possible by expert engineering and cutting-edge technology.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Infantry Assault
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2020
A look at the incredible machines built to get troops directly to the front line, on land, at sea and in the air.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - The Independent
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2020
The Independent, a residential skyscraper in Austin, Texas. At 690ft, it is the tallest building in the city, surpassing the 683ft Austonian, another residential skyscraper.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Supertanker Europe
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/2020
A look at the world's biggest oil tanker - the mighty Supertanker Europe of the record-breaking TI Class of ship.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Beijing Daxing
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/2020
A look at the Beijing Daxing, set to become the biggest airport in the world, designed to accommodate a staggering 100 million travellers each year.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - 111 W. 57th Street
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 4/1/2020
The skinniest skyscraper on earth is being built in New York City. Can engineers find a way to build this ultra-tall slender building?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - The Falkirk Wheel
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 4/15/2020
The Falkirk wheel is the first and only rotating boat lift, capable of moving 600 tonnes of boat and water over a 25-metre height difference in just minutes.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - Stratolaunch
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 4/22/2020
Stratolaunch is designed to lift rockets, spacecraft and experimental high-speed hypersonic planes into the stratosphere, then release them for their onward journey into space.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - World's Strongest Ship
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 8/5/2020
The world's largest heavy-left ship can carry entire cruise ships halfway across the globe without stopping, and to do this, experts use cutting-edge maritime engineering and the latest science for herculean strength and first-class maneuverability.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Largest Plane: Stratolaunch
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 11/11/2020
Test pilots and engineers embark on the first flight of the largest airplane ever built: the Stratolaunch, a one-of-a-kind aircraft designed to transport rockets, spacecraft and experimental hypersonic planes into the stratosphere.
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5.7/1022 votesLoading...#14 - Inside the Tesla Factory
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 5/25/2017
The Tesla car factory is one of the largest and most innovative factories in the world. This state-of-the-art facility is the home to high-tech robots that work around-the-clock to produce thousands of cutting-edge electric cars each week.
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5.8/1019 votesLoading...#15 - Ultimate Warship
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/2015
The HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier has a surface area larger than two soccer fields, and is stocked with cutting edge F35 fighter jets. Discover how this megaship ticks inside and out.
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5.8/105 votesLoading...#16 - Kings of the Battlefield
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/2020
Explore three battlefield behemoths that command land, sea and air.
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6.1/1021 votesLoading...#17 - World's Biggest Cruise Ship
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2016
Go inside the largest cruise ship on the planet: MS Harmony of the Seas. A massive ship that's 1,181 feet long and a staggering 227,000 tons.
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6.2/1023 votesLoading...#18 - Skyscraper of the Future
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/11/2015
Soaring over 2,000 feet into the sky, the Shanghai Tower is the second tallest building in the world, and a futuristic engineering marvel. Discovery how cutting-edge technology means that the building's occupants will never feel it sway.
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6.2/1017 votesLoading...#19 - The Glass Skyscraper
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/4/2016
The Shard, a 73-story glass skyscraper in London, has 11,000 exterior glass panels, a colossal concrete core that supports luxury apartments, a hotel, and close to 600,000 square feet of office space.
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6.2/1010 votesLoading...#20 - Texas Super Skyscraper
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 7/29/2020
A brand-new skyscraper in Texas is a gravity-defying engineering marvel with a one-of-a-kind shape, and to build it, experts use cutting-edge construction and design that pushes modern-day tower-building to strange and innovative heights.
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6.2/1010 votesLoading...#21 - World’s Greatest Waterworks
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 11/18/2020
Engineers in China are constructing the largest and most ambitious water transfer project in human history, defying nature to move vast quantities of water from the south to the dry north in Beijing, all without the use of pumping stations.
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6.3/1021 votesLoading...#22 - World's Most Powerful Dam
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/6/2016
China's Three Gorges Dam is the largest and heaviest concrete structure on earth, and it produces more power than any hydroelectric dam ever built. Discover how engineers reshaped a river to accomplish this incredible engineering feat.
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6.3/106 votesLoading...#23 - US Military Hovercraft
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 8/18/2021
The US military's most advanced hovercraft is a new feat of engineering.
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6.5/1027 votesLoading...#24 - World's Fastest Train
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/25/2015
The Shanghai Maglev is the fastest passenger train in operation on the planet. Discover how engineers were able to design a train that could levitate, and reach a phenomenal top speed of 268 mph.
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6.5/1020 votesLoading...#25 - US Navy's Super Submarine
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2016
The Virginia Class is one of the most advanced nuclear powered, fast attack submarines ever produced for the US Navy. These technological titans are almost 400 feet long, and weigh a staggering 7,800 tons.
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The Worst Episodes of Impossible Engineering
Every episode of Impossible Engineering ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Impossible Engineering!
Behind every seemingly impossible marvel of modern engineering is a cast of historic trailblazers who designed new building techniques, took risks on untested materials and...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Science
Worst Episodes Summary
"Deadliest Trains" is the worst rated episode of "Impossible Engineering". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/17/2018. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Mega City Trains".