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7 Episodes 2003 - 2003
Episode 1
49 mins
Isambard Kingdom Brunel set out to build the largest ship ever constructed. Would it prove to be the engineer's finest hour, or his ultimate undoing?
Episode 2
49 mins
Without the contributions of John Roebling, his son and his son's wife, one of the world's most heavily traveled bridges might never have existed.
Episode 3
48 mins
In 1800 Robert Stevenson set about building a lighthouse on the deadly Bell Rock reef.
Episode 4
How four Sacramento shopkeepers bring President Lincoln's dream of a railway from the Pacific to the Atlantic a reality.
Episode 5
48 mins
As Victorian London's sewage problem reached crisis, Joseph Bazalgette had a solution.
Episode 6
49 mins
French engineer Ferdinand De Lesseps has a plan to build a canal across Panama.
Episode 7
49 mins
Over one hundred people died during the building of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.