6.9/1015 votes#1 - Space Shuttle
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/20/1995
Considered by many to be the most astounding machine ever built, this reusable spaceship is the apex of flight technology. This program recounts the challenges and the critical issues that led to NASA’s decision to create an “airplane” to navigate space.
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7.2/1034 votes#2 - Brooklyn Bridge
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1995
It was an engineering feat of almost miraculous proportions and a design of spectacular elegance. Rare photographs and behind-the-scenes stories recall the politics, the struggles, and the tragedies that made possible “the Eighth Wonder of the World”.
Director: N/A
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7.0/1013 votes#3 - Tunnels
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1995
There is no more potent demonstration of man’s resolve than the design and construction of tunnels–avenues that slice through a conspiracy of elements in the single-minded determination to connect two points. Whether underwater, blasted through solid rock, or negotiating the shifting strata of earth’s unstable crust, we explore the design and engineering of famous tunnels…and the motivation behind them.
Director: N/A
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7.2/1014 votes#4 - Tennessee Valley Authority
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1995
During the depths of the Great Depression, it was FDR’s greatest triumph: A massive public works project that took a 40,000 square mile, disaster-prone river basin, and turned it into a model of industrial progress.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1020 votes#5 - Oil
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1995
From the first well in Pennsylvania to the gushing Spindletop and modern supertankers, the story of oil is the story of civilization as we know it. We’ll take a look at the ingenious and outrageous men who risked everything for “black gold” and unimaginable wealth.
Director: N/A
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8.2/1015 votes#6 - Silver Mines
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/1/1995
It was called the "mother lode", a deposit of silver so massive that it would produce $300-million in its first 25 years of operation, establish Nevada as a state, and bankroll the Union Army in the Civil War. Named after an early investor, we'll see how the Comstock Lode, discovered near Virginia City, proved to be a scientific laboratory from which vast improvements in mining technology and safety were pioneered, including innovations in drilling, ventilation, drainage, and ore processing.
Director: N/A
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7.3/1020 votes#7 - The NYC Subway
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1995
A trip through time on the New York Subway beginning at the beginning– October 1904. We look at New York before the subway–a world of horse carts and elevated trains. We see early impractical experiments in transportation like the pneumatic subway or the elevated cable car. The program will deal with the technology of the subway, the construction, and financing. We look at subway stations and equipment.
Director: N/A
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6.7/1010 votes#8 - The Railroads That Tamed the West
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/20/1995
The year was 1869 and America had just completed the greatest building achievement in its history–the Transcontinental Railroad. A thin ribbon of steel and wood now connected East and West. But the fledgling country now faced an even greater challenge–how to harness the awesome potential of the railroad to tame the still wide-open and wild West.
Director: N/A
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7.4/1012 votes#9 - Paving America
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 10/29/1995
The story of the construction of our grand national highway system, from its beginnings in 1912 (it was conceived by auto and headlight tycoons) to its completion in 1984 (when the last stoplight was removed–and buried).
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1019 votes#10 - The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/4/1995
Being starved by an OPEC embargo, America is desperate for oil, and in 1973 construction begins on a 800 mile pipeline, tapping into Alaskan oil to quench their insatiable oil hunger.
Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of Modern Marvels Season 3
Every episode of Modern Marvels Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Modern Marvels Season 3!
HISTORY’s longest-running series moves to H2. Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination found in the world around us. From commonplace items like ink...
Genre:Documentary
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Space Shuttle" is the best rated episode of "Modern Marvels" season 3. It scored 6.9/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/20/1995. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Brooklyn Bridge".