Modern Marvels on History Channel: The greatest TV series ever!

[TigerVols]

I'm rocking the nuts episode right now; just finished watching the hard liquor episode. Have the "70s engineering disasters" episode on Tivo to check out next.

Do these people ever run out of subjects?

 

[MileHigh]

It's a great series. I've watched a lot of them and they are very well done.

 

[WazzuGrad00]

They get a little broad with their definition of modern, but I love the show anyways.

 

[slappy4428]

Yet, some of them are reaches... Plumbing of the ancient Romans or some equally current marvel are too much

 

[slappy4428]

Yet, some of them are reaches... Plumbing of the ancient Romans or some equally current marvel are too much

Modern = "contemporary," not modern = our current era. What the ancient Romans did was a contemporary modern marvel. It fits.

It's the History Channel, for chrissakes. If you go there and expect them to be 2007-centric, you're at the wrong place.

So name the damn thing "Contemporary Modern Marvels"... I give a **** about the evolution of fasteners...


OK< I will admit some of them are cool... others, not so much....

 

[John]

They done anything on grocery stores yet?

 

[MileHigh]

I haven't seen grocery stores, but I saw one on candy/junk food/ice cream that was pretty cool.

 

[slappy4428]

And the one on how Clarence Birdseye invented the electric lightbulb for the freezer was riveting too.

 

[WazzuGrad00]

So name the damn thing "Contemporary Modern Marvels"... I give a **** about the evolution of fasteners...

No, adapt your definition of "modern".

mod·ern /ˈmɒdərn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mod-ern] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of contemporary styles of art, literature, music, etc., that reject traditionally accepted or sanctioned forms and emphasize individual experimentation and sensibility.

From Webster's:

Main Entry: 1mod·ern
Pronunciation: 'mä-d&rn, ÷'mä-d(&-)r&n
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin modernus, from Latin modo just now, from modus measure -- more at METE

1 a : of, relating to, or characteristic of the present or the immediate past : CONTEMPORARY b : of, relating to, or characteristic of a period extending from a relevant remote past to the present time
2 : involving recent techniques, methods, or ideas : UP-TO-DATE
3 capitalized : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of the present or most recent period of development of a language
4 : of or relating to modernism : MODERNIST

 

[slappy4428]

Torture Devices.
Cheese
Atlantic Wall
Barbarian Battle Tech
Bible Tech
Cape Cod Canal
Castles & Dungeons
Da Vinci Tech
Egyptian Pyramids

Yes, after seeing these episodes, I must alter my definition of "modern"... ;D

 

[WazzuGrad00]

I think it's best when they use the history to show how today's innovations have come to be.

Wait ... they did one on cheese. How did I miss this?

 

[Cape_Fear]

I think it's best when they use the history to show how today's innovations have come to be.

The best show for this is Connections and its sequel Connections II (it's from Britain). It still crops up on the Science Channel from time to time.

 

[statrat]

The Machine Gun, Ice Cream, and junk food may be the best entries in this series. And yes, pretty much anything on the history channel is the greatest TV series ever.

 

[TigerVols]

They done anything on grocery stores yet?

As a matter of fact they did -- on Tuesday night. Learned that the first modern (or was it contemporary?) grocery store was the Piggly Wiggly in Memphis.

 

[Football_Bat]

I liked the one where they hurled a Volkswagen 300 yards with a trebuchet.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

We are all geeks...yes, I said 'we' because I love the series too.
The engineering disasters series is tremendous ... of course, I should've gone into engineering in college, but I was tempted by the large sums of money and lucrative schedules of journalism.

 

[doubledown68]

Its ok.. but its still no Mythbusters (mmm, Kari...) or Deadliest Catch