Episodes
- S1 E1 - Spanning the Harlem (aka New York Bridge)September 17, 200546minGlen Aitken and his team from Cambridge, Ontario will use a 288-wheel extreme machine, called the Transporter to lift a massive bridge span off the ocean barge that carried it to New York from Alabama where it was built.Available to buy
- S1 E2 - Jet CarSeptember 21, 2005Racecar driver, Ed Shadle, begins a very dangerous quest - a quest to go faster on land than any man in history.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E3 - Quake Proofing an Icon (aka San Francisco Bridge)September 28, 2005The challenges of the new San Francisco Bay Bridge are huge: How to build a strong foundation when there's no bedrock - only a sea of mud that quivers like jello in an earthquake. How to construct a bridge that will bend but won't break. And how to get it all finished before the next quake hits.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E4 - Fantasy Islands (aka Dubai)September 17, 2005This documentary follows a pair of marine engineers as they stage manage a fleet of monster dredger ships and a 24-hour convoy of mega-trucks moving 14 million tons of rocks for the world's longest breakwater to protect the emerging island from the ravages of the sea.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E5 - The Big ColliderNovember 23, 2005No one knows what The World's Largest Machine will discover, but scientists around the world hope it might answer the big question: How was the universe created?This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E6 - Racing to Power Up (aka Algeria)October 12, 2005Esber Bitar specializes in daunting construction projects, but this time he's really under pressure.This video is currently unavailable
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- Subtitles
- None available
- Directors
- Wendy TruemanColin KingYvette LangAdrian CallenderPeter FindlayNora PrattRoxana SpicerDugald MaudsleyAnne HainsworthRichard Martyn
- Studio
- Koch Entertainment Distribution
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