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How Do They Do It?

Season 8 2011 - 2012
TV-G

  • 2011-06-04T02:00:00Z on Discovery
  • 25m
  • 7h 20m (20 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
How Do They Do It? Ever wondered how the stripes get into toothpaste or how contact lenses are made? How do goods get from one country to another and then into our supermarkets? What are car tires made from and exactly why are plasma TV screens flat? Eating, drinking, driving, flying. These all are activities that we carry out with barely a second thought. But have you ever wondered what exactly goes into your teabag and how it got there? How does an airport handle hundreds of thousands of items of luggage each day? And just how can a car’s airbag inflate so quickly? Every day – often without even realizing it – we come into contact with technology, be it in the bathroom, in the car or on the golf course. We take a look at how things work, and focus on some of the most amazing examples of everyday objects including the world’s fastest elevator and the most expensive chocolate money can buy.

20 episodes

Season Premiere

2011-06-04T02:00:00Z

8x01 Fugu; Freight Trains; Scottish Tartan

Season Premiere

8x01 Fugu; Freight Trains; Scottish Tartan

  • 2011-06-04T02:00:00Z22m

How Japanese master chefs prepare the extremely poisonous puffer fish; freight trains; how Scots weave over 700 types of tartan for kilts.

Bowling balls; tower bridge; Gummy Bears.

2011-06-18T02:00:00Z

8x03 Ice Rink; Car Plant

8x03 Ice Rink; Car Plant

  • 2011-06-18T02:00:00Z22m

World's biggest ice hockey rink and car plant.

A 700-hundred-year-old tree is made into a two-ton Japanese drum; how a factory produces thousands of cars and stays green; how Italians make pasta.

New York's Rikers Island prison; how the famous Royal Mail mail boxes are made; turning fruit into jam.

How do they make a perfectly unpredictable roulette wheel? How do they produce the world's purest olive oil? And how can a rusty wreck be transformed into a classic Batmobile?

Making playing cards that can defeat a cheat; brewing more than a billion bottles of lager a year; the world's most luxurious private jets.

How roulette wheels are made; making the world's purest olive oil; transforming a rusty wreck into a classic Batmobile.

Defusing thousands of World War II land mines; making crisp tasting cider; clearing undergrowth with a thin strip of nylon wire.

How accordions are built; how wasabi is made; how they produce a duck call that can trick birds.

2011-10-28T02:00:00Z

8x13 Submarine Rescue; Subaru

8x13 Submarine Rescue; Subaru

  • 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z22m

Rescuing the crew of a sunken submarine; a monster digger; a car that runs on beer.

2011-12-02T03:00:00Z

8x14 24 Hours of Daytona; Rum

8x14 24 Hours of Daytona; Rum

  • 2011-12-02T03:00:00Z22m

Kepping a car on the road in a 24 hour race; turning sweet sugar cane into rum.

2011-12-16T03:00:00Z

8x16 Circus; Guitars

8x16 Circus; Guitars

  • 2011-12-16T03:00:00Z22m

How a 1700-seat circus tent is set up in 36 hours; turning Japanese maple and mahogany into an electric guitar.

Frankfurter; casino security; sniper rifles.

How do they rescue the crew of a sunken submarine? Submarine rescue specialists test the ability of the world's navies to respond to an underwater emergency.

Season Finale

2012-01-20T03:00:00Z

8x20 Tsukiji; Cricket Bats; Parcels

Season Finale

8x20 Tsukiji; Cricket Bats; Parcels

  • 2012-01-20T03:00:00Z22m

Tsukji; cricket bats; Parcels.

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