What’s on Smithsonian Channel Today?
Here’s today’s schedule for Smithsonian Channel.
Thursday, Nov 21, 2024 EST
How Did They Build That? – Retrofits & Airport Glitz Visiting the Hearst Tower in Manhattan and Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore to understand how they were built; covering how designers and engineers attempt to create a museum worthy of Salvador Dali in Florida. | |
How Did They Build That? – Breakthroughs & Bridges Visiting London's Gherkin, Seattle's Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and Lyon's Musée des Confluences to uncover how and why they were built. | |
How Did They Build That? – Jungles & Bricks Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge. | |
How Did They Build That? – Cantilevers & Lifts An unstable high rise, an otherworldly museum, and a towering cliffside elevator. | |
How Did They Build That? – Arctic Modules & Auditoria The engineering secrets behind a mobile research station in Antarctica, a gravity-defying concert hall on the Canary Islands, and a rotating boat lift in Scotland. | |
How Did They Build That? – Floating & Lifting Architects and engineers build an eco-friendly convention center on Vancouver's waterfront, a lift bridge in Bordeaux and a cocoon-shaped skyscraper in Tokyo each with unique challenges like marine habitats and massive spans. | |
How Did They Fix That? – Toronto Tunnel Host Mike Davidson assists on a multi-million-dollar tunnel-boring project underground in Toronto. | |
How Did They Fix That? – US Coast Guard: Safeguarding The Seas Mike helps fix the vessels that the U.S. Coast Guard use to keep the oceans safe; he replaces key parts of ship engines, removes a large crane from a buoy tender, and fixes a helicopter for a critical exercise. | |
How Did They Fix That? – Savannah: Mega Cranes & Mega Moves Mike helps fix the machines that keep one of the United States' biggest ports moving; he assists a team in moving a 3-million pound crane. | |
How Did They Fix That? – Water Bombers: Fixing Aerial Firefighters With wildfire season ahead, Mike works with an aerial firefighting company as they fix and convert aircraft into firefighting machines, including the transformation of a 1960's C130 plane from aged military aircraft into a stateofthe art waterbomber. | |
How Did They Fix That? – Fixing For A Fight: U.S. Army Mega Repair Base Mike works with the U.S. Army in Germany inside the massive fix facility The MAK, Maintenance Activity Kaiserslautern, as teams repair over one hundred Bradley fighting vehicles, then embeds with troops in a massive two week long battle exercise. | |
How Did They Fix That? – Sealing Nevada's Abandoned Mines Nevada has over 40,000 abandoned mines posing dangers. Mike joins contractors for a week to secure five sites. Alongside biologists, they explore and document wildlife. Reaching these isolated mines requires barges, helicopters, and bulldozers. | |
How Did They Build That? – Sky Gardens & Seismic Stations The engineering secrets behind a massive sky garden in Singapore, the world's most slender tower in Brighton, and a railway station in the shadow of Vesuvius. | |
How Did They Build That? – Supertalls & Firehouses Alien port authority in Belgium; ultrathin skyscraper in Manhattan; hanging museum in Scotland. | |
How Did They Build That? – Tricks & Trains A new Olympic and Paralympic museum tests engineers with its trailblazing accessible design. A dazzling curved glass skyscraper battles gravity in Milan. And a student center built under a noisy railroad. | |
How Did They Build That? – Fantastic & Futuristic Challenges beset a sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center; Amsterdam gains a building inspired by a mountain valley; a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff in the New Mexico desert. | |
How Did They Build That? – Skywalks & Suspensions Uncovering the design and engineering secrets behind the Grand Canyon Skywalk, the Audain Museum and more. | |
How Did They Build That? – Radical & Respledent Exploring the design and engineering stories behind D.C.'s Museum of African American History, the Montreal Tower and the Equinor building in Oslo. | |
How Did They Build That? – Elevated & Elegant Traveling from Canada to Belgium to the Southern U.S. to examine an eye-popping school, museum and railway station and reveal how they were built. | |
How Did They Build That? – Steep & Stunning The engineering secrets behind the world's steepest mountain railway, a remodeled 145-year-old museum and a futuristic condo. | |
How Did They Build That? – Riverparks & Artworks Traveling to New York, Denver and Nice, France to visit Little Island, the Denver Museum of Art and La Tête Carrée; the secrets to how they were built is revealed. | |
How Did They Build That? – Curved & Cables A new performance center with a tent-like glass-and-steel lobby tests engineers in Kansas City; two twisting apartment towers make heads spin in Ontario. | |
How Did They Build That? – Viaducts & Hotels A towering bridge in France; upside-down hotel in China; Italy's forest into the sky. | |
How Did They Build That? – Arches & Opera Houses The inside stories behind a new, horseshoe-shaped complex in Rotterdam, a rock-shaped opera house in China and a makeover of the British Museum. | |
Air Disasters – Deadly Exchange When a commuter flight crashes mysteriously just a mile from a Missouri runway, investigators turn their attention to the final seconds in the cockpit. |
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