Episode
How Do They Do It?: Aluminium Foil, GPS Systems
Overview
Turning sand into aluminum foil; how a GPS (global positioning system) guides people to a specific destination.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 2008-04-01
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Aluminium Foil, GPS Systems is Episode 20 in Season 5 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2008-04-01. The runtime is 22 min.
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