Episode
How Do They Do It?: Windshield Wipers, Space Shuttle, Binoculars
Overview
The rockets that launch the space shuttle; binocular lenses; windshield wiper blades.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2008-03-14
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Windshield Wipers, Space Shuttle, Binoculars is Episode 10 in Season 5 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2008-03-14. The runtime is 22 min.
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