Episode
How Do They Do It?: Super Steel, Wool, Kiteboards
Overview
A look at the process of forging super steel to make cars lighter, greener and safer, and how Australia's 80 million sheep are sheared every spring.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 2014-11-07
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Super Steel, Wool, Kiteboards is Episode 15 in Season 11 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2014-11-07. The runtime is 22 min.
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