Season 23 • Episode 15
LatestAs Modern Marvels disrupts the $100 billion-a-year yard tech industry, it’s time to start the mower and pull those weeds. We’ll look at high-tech gadgets and gizmos promising to keep your patch of grass beautiful and green, ranging from the newest mowers to a sprinkler system that checks the weather for you.
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 and coffee to architectural masterpieces and engineering disasters, the hit series goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and sometime-schemers that create everyday items, technological breakthroughs and manmade wonders. The hit series goes deep to explore the leading edge of human inspiration and ambition.
Production
23 seasons of obsessive research. They really did THAT.
Editing
90s CGI graphics that aged like fine wine.
Creator
Bruce Nash
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show once devoted an entire hour to the history of the zipper. Ratings went UP.
Modern Marvels basically invented the 'how it's made' YouTube algorithm before YouTube existed.
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