Episode
How Do They Do It?: Swiss Cheese, Tanks, British Library
Overview
How do they put the holes in Swiss cheese? How do they restore and improve a classic battle tank? And how do robotic librarians run one of the world's biggest...
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2011-07-01
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Swiss Cheese, Tanks, British Library is Episode 5 in Season 8 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2011-07-01. The runtime is 22 min.
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