How It's Made

- Season 5

(2005)

Find out how everyday items such as paving asphalt, marshmallow cookies, loudspeakers, electronic door locks are produced.

Find out how wood burning stoves, orthoses, ballet slippers, mad buses are made.

Discover what it takes to manufacture robotic arms, apply a tattoo and build concrete pipes.

Hockey gloves, snack cakes, remolded tires, and wastewater treatment plants seem ordinary enough. Find out what it takes to make them.

Find out how ambulances, dining room tables, diatonic accordions, acrylic awards are made.

Take the mystery out of everyday items with a look at how alkaline batteries, wheelchairs, flutes, cowboy boots are made.

Discover the secrets to manufacturing golf balls, furniture handles, parking meters, and room dividers.

Find out how suits of armor are constructed, how street light poles are erected, how poles are bent, and what goes on in a membrane switch.

Discover the fascinating process of making everyday items such as sulkies, bagpipes, Yule logs and fishing lures.

Uncover the humble beginnings of goalie pads, lapel pins, cardboard boxes and crystal wine glasses.

It takes something special to make ordinary items. Find out how cement, caskets, soft drinks, and glider rockers are made.

Find out how kitchen knives, mannequins, socks, and hypodermic needles are manufactured.

Discover the intricate beginnings of electrical panels, kites, eyeglass frames, and toothbrushes.