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Television series that documents how various everyday products are made.

Themed episodes made up of segments from Comment c'est fait (2001).

Take the mystery out of everyday products with a look at air filters, billiard cues, ice sculptures and suits and find out how they are made.

How It's Made looks at the machines and construction methods behind aluminum foil, snow boards, soft contact lenses, and bread.

Find out how ambulances, dining room tables, diatonic accordions, acrylic awards are made.

Discover how honey, fiber optics, bricks and pipe organs are produced in this episode.

Unlock the secrets of combination locks, throw the mystery off of pottery, climb into the world of recreational vehicles, and rub some sense into erasers.

In this episode find out how compact discs, mozzarella cheese, pantyhose, and fluorescent tubes are made.

Learn about the beat behind conga drums, get the hard facts about metal plating, and find out what's cute about creating buttons.

This episode will show you how copy paper, jeans, computers, and plate glass is made.

How it's made: eyeglass lenses, granite, potato chips, and microprocessors.

Discover how grinding wheels are made, compost is prepared, window blinds are constructed, and milk is processed.

Follow the production process of hearing aids, 3-D puzzles, Rubber mats, and toilets.

Find out how high-precision cutting tools, stained glass, semi-trailers, and recorders are made.

Hockey gloves, snack cakes, remolded tires, and wastewater treatment plants seem ordinary enough. Find out what it takes to make them.

Find out how horse-drawn carriages, artificial eyes, dog and cat food and mirrors are manufactured.

Hydroponic lettuce, construction wood and fishing flies all have a process behind them. Uncover the secrets of these familiar items.

Find out how everyday items such as paving asphalt, marshmallow cookies, loudspeakers, electronic door locks are produced.

In this episode find out how personal watercraft, ice skates, wine, and office furniture is made.

Discover how plastic bottles and jars are constructed, how mail is processed and how wooden pens are handcrafted.

Find out how plastic injection moulds, automotive oil filters, filing cabinets and blown glass are made.

Find out how pre-inked stamps, cranberries, cotton yarn, road signs are made.

Discover what it takes to manufacture robotic arms, apply a tattoo and build concrete pipes.

Find out how ropes, billiard tables, sailboards, and cymbals are constructed.

Discover the secrets behind the construction of familiar items such as seatbelts, windows, wax figurines, and hot air balloons.