Modern Marvels Heavy Metals DVD

• Additional Details
• Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Rating: Not Rated
• Number of Discs: 1
• Run Time: 50 Minutes
• Region: Region 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Language: English
• Studio: History Channel
• DVD Release Date: June 14, 2006

See how these important elements are vital to American industry and security.

• The ultimate celebration and investigation of engineering excellence.
• Visit the National Defense stockpile.
• For over a decade, MODERN MARVELS has brought grand stories to life.

Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS® tells the fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who created everyday items, technological breakthroughs and man-made wonders.

They occupy a select portion of the periodic table. They are so essential to America's economic and military might that they are stored in the National Defense Stockpile in case of all-out war. But they are also, some of them, among the most mundane of all elements: copper, lead, zinc, and nickel.

MODERN MARVELS® also looks at the superalloys--consisting of steel combined with chromium, cobalt, and dozens of other metals--that resist corrosion and perform increasingly elaborate functions. From Earth to space, cosmetics to vitamins, in a million different ways, heavy metals are here to stay.