Episode
How Do They Do It?: Sydney Opera House, Handsaws
Overview
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?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 13
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 2016-11-21
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Sydney Opera House, Handsaws is Episode 15 in Season 13 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2016-11-21. The runtime is 22 min.
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