Episode
How Do They Do It?: Gemstones, Cowboy Boots
Overview
How do they mine one of the rarest gemstones in the world, craft the classic cowboy boot, and build a road sweeper that can pick up seven tonnes of trash?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 13
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 2016-12-05
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Gemstones, Cowboy Boots is Episode 17 in Season 13 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2016-12-05. The runtime is 22 min.
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