NEW YORK, NY – Error is inevitable in all human endeavors, but when the undertakings are engineering feats of enormous proportions, the smallest mistakes may have devastating consequences. From the Exxon Valdez and a nuclear meltdown at a secret government facility to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, MODERN MARVELS® has chronicled many of history’s most devastating catastrophes. And, just in time for Father’s Day, A&E Home Video and HISTORY™ have erected a 5-DVD set ($49.95SRP) featuring 40 such catastrophes in one well-built set: MODERN MARVELS: ENGINEERING DISASTERS.
NEW YORK, NY – Error is inevitable in all human endeavors, but when the undertakings are engineering feats of enormous proportions, the smallest mistakes may have devastating consequences. From the Exxon Valdez and a nuclear meltdown at a secret government facility to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, MODERN MARVELS® has chronicled many of history’s most devastating catastrophes. And, just in time for Father’s Day, A&E Home Video and HISTORY™ have erected a 5-DVD set ($49.95SRP) featuring 40 such catastrophes in one well-built set: MODERN MARVELS: ENGINEERING DISASTERS.
In 18 thrilling episodes, HISTORY dramatizes the world’s most notorious and complex engineering failures. Using state-of-the-art special effects, interviews with forensic engineering experts and historians and footage of the actual disasters MODERN MARVELS: ENGINEERING DISASTERS investigates not only what went wrong, but what can be learned from these spectacular disasters. The catastrophes recounted led to the creation of Superfund sites for the cleanup of toxic waste; improved safety standards for cars, planes, and ships; and new techniques for building roads, bridges, and buildings that will withstand nature’s most destructives forces.
The benefits of modern engineering are innumerable, and we pass examples of it everyday without a second thought. However, when something goes wrong, it can bring our daily lives to an abrupt standstill. Dark clouds with silver linings, MODERN MARVELS: ENGINEERING DISTASTERS presents the tragic, yet invaluable, handmaidens of technological progress.
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