Modern Marvels

Season 5, Episode 17

Episode Title: American Steel: Built to Last.

Air Date: 1998-01-18

Overview:

For over a century, the US steel industry was a powerful symbol of the nation's industrial might. Steel helped explode the stock market into an overnight powerhouse, and transformed a country of farmers and merchants into a nation of visionary builders. But America's domination of the market would meet new challenges in the 1970s.