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Season One

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Covering adhesive bandages, holograms and toilets.
 
 
  • Episode 1
    Follow the production process of aluminum foil, snowboards, soft polymer contact lenses and bread and find out how each of these items is made.
     
    Episode 2
    Discover the processes involved in the manufacture of compact discs, mozzarella cheese, pantyhose, and fluorescent tubes.
     
    Episode 3
    Find out how toothpicks, acrylic bathtubs, helicopters and beer are made.
     
    Episode 4
    Follow the production process of hearing aids, 3-D puzzles, rubber mats, and toilets.
     
    Episode 5
    Find out how copy paper, jeans, computers, and plate glass are made.
     
    Episode 6
    Nails and staples, safety glasses, fabrics, bicycles -- find out how each of these every day items are made and put together.
     
    Episode 7
    Follow the production from start to finish of kayaks, safety boots, electronic signs and breakfast cereals.
     
    Episode 8
    Find out how trucks, adhesive bandages, computer circuit boards, and liquors are made.
     
    Episode 9
    Follow the production of steel, apple juice, aircraft landing gear and cosmetics.
     
    Episode 10
    The process behind making holograms, package printing, skin cultures and canned corn is revealed.
     
    Episode 11
    Learn how plastic bags, solar panels, plastic gasoline containers, and hockey sticks are made.
     
    Episode 12
    Aluminum screw caps, chocolate, pills and pasta are some of the most common items around today. Find out how they are made.
     
    Episode 13
    Bicycle helmets, lithium batteries, car brakes, and aluminum are depended on every day. Find out how each is made.
  • Episode 14
    Find out how eyeglass lenses are ground to perfect vision, how granite is quarried, how potatoes render salty chips and how microprocessors are processed.
     
    Episode 15
    Discover how bees make honey and what humans do with honeycombs, how fiber optics are constructed, how bricks are formed and how pipe organs are made.
     
    Episode 16
    Discover how personal watercraft, ice skates, wine, and office furniture are made.
     
    Episode 17
    Find out how winter jackets are constructed, how animation is created from initial drawings, how mushrooms come into being and how gold is formed.
     
    Episode 18
    Hydroponic lettuce, construction wood and fishing flies all have a process behind them. Uncover the secrets of these familiar items.
     
    Episode 19
    Find out how wooden doors are fashioned, paintballs are produced, newspapers turned out and diamonds are cut.
     
    Episode 20
    Find out how carpet is fabricated, drinking water purified, laser eye surgery performed, and acoustic guitars are made.
     
    Episode 21
    Find out how fiberglass boats, clothes dryers, bubble gum and fireworks are made.
     
    Episode 22
    Follow the production process from start to finish of steel safes, false teeth, airplanes and maple syrup.
     
    Episode 23
    Find out how gummies candy is made, how fish are farmed, how aluminum cans are created and how bronze sculptures are erected.
     
    Episode 24
    Find out how aluminum pots and pans are made, artificial limbs constructed, peanut butter put together and high intensity light bulbs empowered.
     
    Episode 25
    Find out how coins, cars and grocery carts are made.
     
    Episode 26
    Find out how ball bearings, electrical wires, wax casting and automated machines are made.
 
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