Episode
How Do They Do It?: Buildings, Electricity Pylons, Balloon Makers
Overview
Learn how buildings are made earthquake proof, the electricity supply is ensured and balloons are made?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2007-03-28
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Buildings, Electricity Pylons, Balloon Makers is Episode 12 in Season 3 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2007-03-28. The runtime is 22 min.
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