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How Do They Do It?

Season 13 2016
TV-G

  • 2016-08-09T02:00:00Z 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

2016-08-09T02:00:00Z

13x01 Baklavas; Gyroplanes; Ukuleles; Catamarans

Season Premiere

13x01 Baklavas; Gyroplanes; Ukuleles; Catamarans

  • 2016-08-09T02:00:00Z22m

How baklava is made; how pilots fly gyroplanes; how a ukulele is crafted; and how the world's fastest ferry was built.

How longboards are made; how lemons are turned into lemonade; and how forklifts are built.

How coffee is roasted; how bricks are built; how lava lamps are made; and how diamonds are mined from an extinct volcano.

How the world's sharpest photos are taken; what it takes to create an airbag that can catch a falling car; and how jelly beans are made.

Included: caravans; tuning forks; ice resurfacers; and Festival of Lights.

Vinyl records, bumper cars and tiger balm are featured.

How non-alcoholic beer, Tomcars, escalators and lie detectors are made.

How axes, messenger bags and fast-rescue boats are made.

How Wensleydale cheese, paintbrushes, eucalyptus oil and plastic wrap are made.

Included: the Tesla; horse-hair fabrics; and pool cleaners.

How do they feed France's appetite for snails, turn slabs of steel into shiny cutlery, and craft a kayak you can paddle with your feet?

How do they build emergency bridges that can take the weight of a tank, make a marker pen that never fades, and design a 200 mph superbike?

How do they blow the world's finest crystal, heat the deepest swimming pool, and fill a million bottles a day of the world's favourite ketchup?

How do they forge a set of jaws that can chomp through concrete, stitch the historic airman's bomber, and brew the oldest beer in the Western World?

How do they turn Sheffield steel into a carpenter's handsaw, make a microphone that can pick up a whisper, and safely steer through a frozen river?

How do they brew moonshine in the heart of New York City, make a battery powered bicycle, and grow the rubber for wetsuits in the Arizona desert?

2016-12-06T03:00:00Z

13x17 Gemstones, Cowboy Boots

13x17 Gemstones, Cowboy Boots

  • 2016-12-06T03:00:00Z22m

How do they mine one of the rarest gemstones in the world, craft the classic cowboy boot, and build a road sweeper that can pick up seven tonnes of trash?

How do they make the world's softest duvets, drill for oil thousands of metres below ground, and put the stretch in rubber bands?

How do they build a diesel engine that can fly, make cough sweets, turn clear plastic into bank notes, and whip up ice cream flavours?

Season Finale

2016-12-27T03:00:00Z

13x20 Armored Cars, Christmas Trees

Season Finale

13x20 Armored Cars, Christmas Trees

  • 2016-12-27T03:00:00Z22m

How do they turn a family car into a fortress on wheels, grow millions of perfect Christmas trees and hammer out the world's finest cymbals?

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