Big, Bigger, Biggest

Brilliant documentary series.

Big, Bigger, Biggest each episode examines a current engineering marvel, ideally the biggest of that ever built. It then traces back all the leaps forward in technology and innovation, through looking at the then-marvels/"biggest"s of that type and the revolutionary progress they brought.

Items covered include: tunnels, towers, oil rigs, bridges, telescopes, dams and cruise liners (to name but a few).

Incredibly well researched.

Well told too: you are never blinded by the maths or other theory involved, so most people should be able to follow. Very stirring stuff, as you come to appreciate just how innovative and intelligent the designers of each leap of progress were. Even the peripheral engineering reminds us of what a clever and resourceful age we live in, and how ingenious people can be.

Good graphics and scaled-down practical experiments illustrate the phenomena and theories at work very well.

So good, each episode makes me want to be an engineer...

i have watched this episode in national geographic channel, and I downloaded all the episodes from internet .If you want to learn or know something you have to browse and download many files and you have to watch dozens of videos and you have to do a research to know about it.But in such cases this is something different there is a episode about space station .This episode narrates about the history and technology and the upgrades done over it in years,and the hurdles that the team faces to create it and how did they manage to find a solution for the problem with an excellent cg works.In the end of the episode you feel satisfied and you have a great feeling that you have learned and gained knowledge .Hats of to director and his team and the production unit for presenting an amazing episode. All things can be learned in just 50 minutes .