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Modern Marvels
Season 11 · Episode 12
Bible Tech
0.044mApril 7, 2004
Arguably the most influential book ever written, the Bible provides a glimpse into the origins of ancient technology and its uses. We examine the technological plausibility of biblical structures and machines–including the Tower of Babylon, the Temple of Jerusalem, ancient bronze and iron forging, and shipbuilding skills that might have been employed to build Noah’s Ark.
Episodes
- Episode 1Guns of the Russian Military
- Episode 2The F-15
- Episode 3The Submarines
- Episode 4Pacific Coast Highway
- Episode 5Gangster Guns
- Episode 6Ship of Gold
- Episode 7Racetrack Tech
- Episode 8Oil Fire Fighting
- Episode 9Command Central
- Episode 10Front Line Reporting
- Episode 11Nature's Engineers
- Episode 12Bible Tech
- Episode 13The Power Grid
- Episode 14Bathroom Tech
- Episode 15Engineering Disasters 6
- Episode 16F-18 Hornet
- Episode 17Hydraulics
- Episode 18The Subs of WWII
- Episode 19Plane Crashes
- Episode 20D-Day Tech
- Episode 21A-10 Tankbuster
- Episode 22Rubber
- Episode 23City Water
- Episode 24Greatest Movies Gadgets
- Episode 25Robots
- Episode 26Nuclear Tech
- Episode 27Apollo 11
- Episode 28World War I Tech
- Episode 29Distilleries
- Episode 30Oil Tankers
- Episode 31Athens Subway
- Episode 32Extreme Aircraft
- Episode 33Engineering Disasters 7
- Episode 34George Washington Bridge
- Episode 35Building a Skyscraper: The Skeleton
- Episode 36Building a Skyscraper: The Exterior
- Episode 37Building a Skyscraper: The Human Environment
- Episode 38Building a Skyscraper: The Arteries
- Episode 39The Sears Tower
- Episode 40St. Lawrence Seaway
- Episode 41Guns of WWII
- Episode 42St. Lawrence Tech
- Episode 43Police Pursuit
- Episode 44SOS Tech
- Episode 45More of the World's Biggest Machines
- Episode 46Firefighting: The Arson Detectives
- Episode 47Guns of Israel
- Episode 48Engineering Disasters 8
- Episode 49Harvesting
- Episode 50Engineering Disasters 9
- Episode 51Guns of the Civil War
- Episode 52Engineering Disasters 10
- Episode 53Presidential Movers
- Episode 54Gas Tech
- Episode 55Engineering Disasters 11
- Episode 56The World's Longest Bridge
- Episode 57Japanese Sub at Pearl Harbor
- Episode 58M1 Abrams Supertank!
- Episode 59Engineering Disasters 12
- Episode 60Surveillance Tech
- Episode 61Engineering Disasters 13
- Episode 62Submarine Disasters
- Episode 63Engineering Disasters 14
- Episode 64Movie Theaters
- Episode 65Washington Monument
- Episode 66Engineering Disasters 15
- Episode 67Snack Food Tech
- Episode 68More Dangerous Cargo!
- Episode 69Commercial Fishing
- Episode 70Ancient Discoveries (1)
- Episode 71Ancient Discoveries (2)
- Episode 72Ancient Discoveries (3)
- Episode 73Engineering Disasters 16
- Episode 74Doomsday Tech
- Episode 75More Doomsday Tech
- Episode 76The Computer