How It's Made

Discover how footballs, electric guitar amplifiers, marbles, and airplane propellers are made.

Find out how engine blocks, jawbreakers, drum shells, and drums are made.

Discover how lighters, fossils, hockey pucks and high-pressure cylinders are made.

Find out how to make balloons, wallpaper, frozen French fries, and incandescent light bulbs.

Discover the secrets behind matches, carousel horses, fine porcelain, and automobile fuel tanks.

Find out how glass cookware, soap bars, steel drums, and firefighter uniforms are made.

Find out what goes into the fabrication of everyday items such as crayons, wooden kayaks, lawn mowers, and gold chains.

Find out what goes into manufacturing inflatable safety devices, braille typewriters, and carbon fiber cellos.

Explore the construction behind items such as carbon fibre masts, fortune cookies and IMAX projectors. Also, discover how roller chains are made.

Follow the production of firefighter helmets, nautical compasses, packaging tubes and hand saws.

Find out how halogen bulbs, cellulose insulation, aluminum ladders, and bamboo fly rods are made.

Ever wonder how drill bits, photo booths and stamps are made? Find out on How It's Made.

Discover how yacht wheels, braided rugs, automobile thermostats and chisels are made.

Common items have unlikely beginnings. Learn the secrets behind fur tanning, photographs, welding electrodes and electric violins.

Find out how glass bottles, hacksaws and goalie masks are fabricated.

Learn the process of manufacturing lacrosse sticks, frozen fish products, flashlights and paintbrushes.

Find out how battery tins and optical lenses are made.

From the garage to the kitchen, find out how everyday items are made including horseshoes, dishwashers, graphite fly rods and frozen pizzas.

Find out how pistons, paint rollers, parachutes and chimneys are made.

Uncover the secrets behind the construction of CO2 cartridges, pretzels, scissor lifts and skating rinks.

Discover how hockey sticks are cut, baby shoes are bronzed, treadmills are constructed and hand-held computers are engineered.

Discover how motorcycles, clay pipes and drum sticks are manufactured. Also, see how whistles are made.

Find out how handcuffs are forged, caulking and joint compound are made, propane tanks are filled, and forensic facial reconstruction is done.

Find out how to make a fur coat, a hearse, outdoor lighting fixtures and a golf tee.