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Invent Now Challenge

Inventors from across the country submit their inventions.

Mega Disasters

How would today's world hold up to mother nature's fury?

Modern Marvels

The fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers, and sometime-schemers.

Destination: Space

Explore the history and science behind space travel.

Saturday, November 18 at 7PM EST
Sunday, November 12 at 7AM EST
Sunday, November 19 at 7AM EST
Wednesday, November 15 at 8PM EST
Wednesday, November 15 at 11PM EST
Wednesday, November 15 at 10PM EST
Saturday, November 18 at 12PM EST
Thursday, November 09 at 1PM EST
Modern Marvels: Civil War Tech. Saturday, November 18 at 7PM EST
America protects its homeland with the most technologically advanced military force ever conceived. Although they fight 21st-century battles worldwide, . . .
Great Scientists: Isaac Newton. Sunday, November 12 at 7AM EST
Dr. Allan Chapman, historian of science and professor at Oxford University, profiles the lives and works of the most brilliant scientists in . . .
Great Scientists: Charles Darwin. Sunday, November 19 at 7AM EST
Without Darwin, Dr. Allan Chapman explains, we would still, exclusively, look to God for the story of creation. Chapman talks us through the life and times . . .
Modern Marvels: Leather. Wednesday, November 15 at 8PM EST
Sometime at the dawn of civilization, animal hides were rubbed down with animal fat, making them more flexible, durable, and malleable. By the 5th Century . . .
Modern Marvels: Custom Cars. Wednesday, November 15 at 11PM EST
For most of us, cars are an ordinary fixture of daily life. But then there are custom cars--literal labors of love. Supercharged hot rods, sublimely sculpted . . .
Modern Marvels: The Supermarket. Wednesday, November 15 at 10PM EST
Our basic need and desire for food has made the supermarket one of the great success stories of modern retailing. Making customers' visits to . . .
Modern Marvels: Million Dollar Tech. Saturday, November 18 at 12PM EST
For millennia, luxury toys have functioned as flashy instruments of affluence, authority, and identity and driven many kingly consumers to covet, create, . . .
Modern Marvels: Engines. Thursday, November 09 at 1PM EST
Story of the development of engines and motors, with particular emphasis on the ones that have profoundly changed society. Beginning with the steam engine, . . .
Encyclopedia

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY,

The first successful self-propelled road vehicle was a steam automobile invented in 1770 by the French engineer Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. It was designed to transport artillery, and it ran on three wheels.

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Encyclopedia : AUTOMOBILE RACING,

Have auto manufacturers done enough to keep passengers safe?
Yes
 
No