Name: Aqueducts
Released: 1996-10-06

Modern Marvels

S4 · E3 — Aqueducts

S4:E3 · Aqueducts

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12 episodes in this season

America's Highways

44 min

The Telephone

44 min

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Aqueducts

44 min

Television

44 min

The Computer

44 min

Captured Light

44 min

Stealth Technology

44 min

Pyramids: Majesty And Mystery

44 min

Roller Coasters

44 min

E10

Observatories: Stonehenge to Space Telescopes

44 min

E11

The Great Wall of China.

44 min

E12

Air Force One: A History

44 min

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Aqueducts

Season 4 · Episode 3 · Oct 6, 1996

Many rivers quenched the thirst of millions in the American west and around the world. Without these aqueducts, some of the earth’s largest cities would turn into gigantic ghost towns. Their technology has been in use for over two thousand years. But today these engineering marvels cost billions of dollars to build, requiring thousands of men to toil for years on end. Aqueducts have made some men famous and others fabulously wealthy. In Los Angeles one man’s vision took one hundred thousand men to complete and a great city was truly born. In Northern California the most famous conservationist of our time waged the political fight of his life in an attempt to save one of nature’s most spectacular valleys from San Francisco’s demand for more water.

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Modern Marvels

TV Series

199344m8.1

Documentary

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Aqueducts

Season 4 · Episode 3 · Oct 6, 1996

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