Name: Merveilles modernes
Released: 1992-11-11T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Adam Richman

Émission télé · Documentaire

Célébrant l'ingéniosité, l'invention et l'imagination à grande échelle, on raconte les histoires étonnantes de ceux qui créent des objets du quotidien, des avancées technologiques et des merveilles artificielles. La Tour Eiffel, la Statue de la Liberté et la technologie des années 90 ne sont que quelques-uns des nombreux sujets abordés.

1992 · 1h 24m

En vedette Adam Richman

ÉPISODE 2

Las Vegas

Rising from a stretch of desert with nothing but remoteness to recommend it, Las Vegas became a glittering wonderland for dreamers; a look at the forces that made Las Vegas a place unlike any on earth.

1 h 24 min
ÉPISODE 6

Golden Gate Bridge

More than 50 years after its construction, the Golden Gate remains one of the world's great engineering marvels. It took 25-million man-hours and 80,000 miles of cable to complete; the cost in human life proved even greater.

44 min
ÉPISODE 10

Mount Rushmore

Under the supervision of sculptor Gutzon Borglum, miners and quarrymen carve the faces of four U.S. presidents into the Black Hills of South Dakota, paying tribute to the first 150 years of American history.

43 min
ÉPISODE 11

Ocean Liners

With technological advances, our ancient struggle against the sea has turned into a luxurious holiday; a peek at the elegant life on these floating resorts.

45 min
ÉPISODE 12

The Panama Canal

The construction of the 51-mile canal that took ten years to build and employed over 40,000 workers, 6,000 of whom died of yellow fever, malaria, and other horrors; an earlier, nine-year attempt by the French ended in failure and cost 20,000 lives.

42 min
ÉPISODE 16

Empire State Building

The landmark New York City skyscraper was constructed during the depths of the Depression. Requiring 10 million bricks and 60,000 tons of steel beams and using a revolutionary technique to hold the steel girders in place: hot rivets.

44 min