Impossible Engineering

Name: Impossible Engineering
Genre: Documental
Released: 2015-04-13
Duration: 42 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Mike Bratton, Susie Sheehy

AA 2015 42 min / per episode 10 seasons · 82 episodes

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Audience score17 votes on TMDB

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Behind every seemingly impossible marvel of modern engineering is a cast of historic trailblazers who designed new building techniques, took risks on untested materials and revolutionised their field. Each episode details how giant structures, record-beating buildings, war ships and spacecraft are built and work. As the show revels in these modern day creations, it also leaps back in time to recount the stories of the exceptional engineers whose technological advances made it all possible.

Status: Ended
First air date: 13/04/2015
Original language: English

Main cast

Mike Bratton Narrator

Susie Sheehy

Seasons and episodes

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