Episode
How Do They Do It?: Parchment, Shuttlecocks, Salt
Overview
How did the ancient Greeks invent parchment with techniques still used today? And how do they make shuttlecocks, the fasting moving object in sport?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 15
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 2017-10-28
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Parchment, Shuttlecocks, Salt is Episode 6 in Season 15 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2017-10-28. The runtime is 22 min.
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