Episode
How Do They Do It?: Bamboo Scaffolding, Strontium
Overview
Indian construction crews that use bamboo for their scaffolding needs; Mining strontium for multicolored fireworks.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2015-07-30
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Bamboo Scaffolding, Strontium is Episode 11 in Season 12 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2015-07-30. The runtime is 22 min.
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