Techno Files Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Air

  The largest aircraft ever built; Russian cargo plane; largest rocket.

• Armored Cars

  Technology behind armored cars.

• Bigfoot Monster Truck

  Monster munchers; gantry and Big John D; Crawler mining shovels.

• Body Armor

  The difference between life and death.

• Boeing 747-400

  History of the Boeing 747.

• City Life

  Modern conveniences invented in ancient times; host Terry Jones.

• Depth Charge: Underwater Robot Challenge

  Oceanographers use underwater crafts for engineering and construction.

• Driving Design

  Southern California hosts the world's most influential automobile design studios.

• Earth

  Largest subway system; largest indoor ski resort; largest satellite manufacturing plant in the world; largest hotspot in the United States.

• Emergency Vehicles

  Emergency vehicles and the crews that work with them to save lives.

• Extreme Machines: Armored Cars

  Technology behind armored cars.

• Fakes and Forgeries

  As fast as technology is developed to detect fakes, forgers devise new methods of deception.

• The First Submarine

  A scientist and engineer must build a 17th-century submarine.

• Giant Cranes

  Physics behind giant cranes.

• Greatest Motorcycles Ever Made

  Motorcycle fanatics debate over which bike earns the right to be called the greatest cycle ever made.

• Hammerheads: Nomads of the Deep
• High-Tech Transportation

  Transportation in the future.

• Ice Masters

  Trill-seekers master machines on ice.

• Inside German Engineering: Porsche and Mercedes

  Development of two German cars.

• Into the Abyss

  Machines allow explorers to travel deep in the ocean.

• Jump Jets

  The Harrier airplane travels at high speed and can take off and land vertically.

• Landfill Compactor

  Massive machines.

• Mega Machines

  Construction is one of the most dangerous industries.

• Mega Machines: Liebherr Bumptruck

  The awesome power of mammoth machines.

• Mega Trucks

  Many uses of trucks.

• Money, Money, Money

  Spotting counterfeiters and counterfeit money.

• Nuclear Submarines

  Submarines maintain a strategic and nuclear deterrent around the world.

• Raiders of the Deep

  New technology allows scientists to explore the ocean depths.

• Rocketeers

  World's largest amateur rocket launch.

• Security

  Cyberworld security; differentiating people; ATM security.

• Speed Freaks II

  Technology of newer, faster and more dangerous machines.

• Super Sight

  Technology provides images that the human eye cannot see.

• Supercars

  Vehicles travel up to 200 mph, accelerate, corner and brake faster than ordinary cars.

• Surveillance

  Satellites are involved in more aspects of life than we realize.

• Tanks

  Life of a tank crew; tanks in action; tanks of the future.

• Techno Cops

  Technological inventions revolutionize police work.

• Technospy

  Latest in espionage and covert spy techniques.

• Ultimate Guide: Planes

  Evolution of planes.

• Ultimate Ten: Speed Machines

  G-Lynx; SR-71; Maglev trains.

• Underwater Machines: Into the Abyss

  Traveling deeper underwater than ever before.

• War and Conflict

  War inspires weapon inventions and medical advances; host Terry Jones.

• Water

  Sea vessels; aquarium.

• Wheels of Steel

  Cutting-edge train technology.

• Wind

  Large and specialized aircraft.

• Wreck Finder

  The Navy's USS Grasp assists in oceanic search and rescue.