Modern Marvels

From elaborate elite training facilities to GPS-guided air drops, to revolutionary high-tech tents and fire-retardant uniforms, episode explores the science and technology of building, operating and protecting a base in a warzone.

Targeting the historical trajectory of bullets, ranging from their origins in the 1300s as stones and lead balls to the ``safe`` and ``smart`` bullets of today.

Hazardous-material shipment; trucks carrying classified government materials; Con-Air flight moves dangerous felons.

Get behind the wheel and take control of the some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet; these aren't the average vehicles and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else.

Limousines have been stretched to greater and greater lengths--as has the notion of what can be done inside them; you can have a rolling disco in a stretched SUV, go for a rumble off-road in a monster truck limousine, or take a direct hit.

Examining 8,000 horsepower dragsters and hydroplanes with top speeds of 200 miles per hour and a cargo ship propelled by one of the most powerful diesel engines on Earth.

Sit tight and click the seat belt because while there are over 230 million licenced drivers in America, episode goes way beyond the driver's seat of an average automobile.

Episode takes the ``best of`` Modern Marvels and give the mega top 10 countdown; on this edition: amazing weapons; they're every arsenal's best asset and every enemy's worst nightmare.

Breakfast technology slices, squeezes, sorts, and cooks to keep orange juice fresh and cereals flaked; explore USS Stennis meal preparation for sailors, Tyson bacon processing, Sunkist orange squeezing, and McDonald's McGriddle pancake production.

Coffee traces origins from Ethiopia over 1,000 years ago to today's Starbucks explosion; American giants Hills Brothers, Maxwell House, and Folgers process billions of beans while coffeehouses historically brewed political and artistic progress.

Corn is the largest agricultural crop in the world, and it is used in more than 3,000 diverse items, ranging from food to the plastic wrap for packaging it.

Each year in the U.S., 280 million hens lay 80 billion eggs, one of the world's most affordable sources of protein; charting an egg's journey from the henhouse to the breakfast table; how powdered eggs are manufactured.

Sinkholes; use of asbestos; Chang River flood; liquid natural-gas explosions; Hyatt Hotel walkway collapses.

Denver International Airport baggage disaster; Texas A&M bonfire; M-4 Sherman tank; Milwaukee Water Treatment disaster of 1993; Skyline Plaza collapse.

A toxic waste dump at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y.; software flaws render Patriot Missiles inaccurate; the collapse of 7 World Trade Center; the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.

Oil-tanker explosion; subway tunnel cave-in; freighter-plane crash; molasses flash-flood; freeway-ramp collapse.

Chicago flood; Alpine tunnel fires; riverboat boiler explosion; building collapse; plane crash.

Grain-elevator explosion; freighter crashes into mall; collapse of Rosemont Horizon; Schoharie Bridge collapse; airship crash.

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald; the Buffalo Creek Dam disaster; the explosion of a supertanker in Los Angeles Harbor.

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, submerging 80% underwater due to levee and pumping system failures; investigate engineering causes behind Superdome nightmare, major escape route design flaws, and Louisiana coastline sinking issues.

The sugar industry developed through Caribbean slavery and British control desires; sugar played critical roles in American independence while modern Hawaiian plantations process cane stalks into raw sugar, corn syrup, and various sweetener forms.

Tea ranks as world's second most popular drink with ancient origins; explore Lipton's Suffolk plant producing teabags, Charleston Plantation's cultivation, Boston Tea Party history, Clipper Ships bringing Chinese tea, and modern herbal varieties.

The versatile and nutritious potato; the potato's mysterious origins in South America's Andes; potato knishes in New York City; farming exotic potatoes in Maine; large-scale potato production in Iowa and Pennsylvania.

How wheat feeds the world; wheat becomes everything from bread to beer; a custom harvester follows ripening wheat fields from Texas to North Dakota; exporting wheat; grinding grain into flour; Widmer Brothers Brewery; Wheatware.

Space travel technologies.

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