Episode
How Do They Do It?: Steam-Powered Boat, Waterwall
Overview
How do they build the famous steam-powered paddleboats that cruise the Mississippi River? How did they create the powerful defence system called 'the waterwall'?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 2017-03-03
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Steam-Powered Boat, Waterwall is Episode 18 in Season 14 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2017-03-03. The runtime is 22 min.
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