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Glimpses of How it's made, 6 Minute Manufacturing
ptorrone writes "We (MAKE Magazine) have released a free 35 minute film for download - "Glimpses of How it's made" - a tour of how many things in our world are made, each segment is 6 minutes (hence the full name "Six-Minute Manufacturing Glimpses of How it's made"). Learn about, get inspired, and see how stuff is made: LectroSonics (wireless microphones), Rose's Southwest Papers (paper converting), Accurate Custom (Injection Molding), Mega Corp. (water haulage equipment), Earthstone International (recycled glass abrasives), Butterman Tool (tool and die), Eclipse Aviation (small jet aircraft), Optical Insights (optical equipment). Downloads and more info."
I'm not sure of the wisdom of the site owners in posting a direct link to a 166MB file on Slashdot... Why don't people just use bittorrent for distribution of files like this?
It's a fascinating video though, conveniently formatted for ipods with video.
You may remember me from such instructional videos as "Mothballing Your Battleship" and "Dig Your Own Grave and Save!"
quote from the site: This film is high quality, 166 MB M4V and will play on video iPods, as well as any PC/Mac with the latest version of QuickTime.
I'm not sure of the wisdom of the site owners in posting a 166MB file onto Slashdot... Why don't people just use bittorrent for distributing content like this? A mirror (a 100MB quicktime movie) is available, though, at http://downloads.oreilly.com/make/howitismade.mov
A fascinating file though, conveniently formated for the ipod with video.
This is like the show How It's Made on the Discovery Channel:
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In Canada on the discovery channel we have a "how it's made" series that shows how things are manufactured in about the span of 6-8 minutes. ... welcome to 2001
Tom
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A 35 minute film broken up into 6 minute segments? Interesting.
It's good that we have an online museum like this because we in the U.S. will need to remember how to manufacture again once China floats the Renminbi.
Alan: Well last week, we showed you how to become a gynecologist. And this week on "How to Do It" we're going to show you how to play the flute, how to split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, how to irrigate the Sahara Desert and make vast new areas of land cultivatable, but first, here's Jackie to tell you all how to rid the world of all known diseases.
Jackie: Hello, Alan.
Alan: Hello, Jackie.
Jackie: Well, first of all, become a doctor and discover a marvellous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again.
Noel: Great, great, Alan. Well, next week we'll be showing you how black and white people can live together in peace and harmony, and Alan will be over in Moscow showing us how to reconcile the Russians and the Chinese. So until next week, cheerio!
All: Bye!
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
When are all these paleolithic types going to recognize that loss of manufacturing is progress to a services economy -- that deficits don't matter and that there is a Santa Claus?
Seastead this.
There was a programme on TV like this, showing how different things are made. It was an hour long, and believe me you can only watch factory production lines for so long before it gets extremely tedious. Even six minutes of toothpaste going into tubes would have me reaching for the remote.
Factories are dull to work in, why would they be any less dull to watch?
Doesnt anyone else watch the "How its made" show on the science channel?p ?series=103469&gid=0&channel=SCI
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http://science.discovery.com/
http://science.discovery.com/tvlistings/series.js
"How its made" and "Survivorman" are two of the coolest shows on TV, you have GOT TO watch survivorman if you have not seen it yet. It rocks.
http://science.discovery.com/convergence/survivor
-- Given enough time and money, Microsoft will eventualy invent UNIX.
...how babies are made is especially interesting, but it's only 30 seconds.
http://69.56.247.237/download/howitismade.m4v
But everybody knows that Internet Explorer doesn't freeze. It just turns into an ooze. Firefox, on the other hand, leaks. Memory that is.
And yet they both got modded up. :)
Stanford University hosts another cool free site with manufacturing videos, entitled "How Everyday Things Are Made"
http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/
Here is the site's description:
"If you've ever wondered how things are made - products like candy, cars, airplanes, or bottles - or if you've been interested in manufacturing processes, like forging, casting, or injection molding, then you've come to the right place."
The videos play using Flash; some are longer than others. Since the videos are donated (they aren't made by Stanford) some of them spew a bit of propaganda, but overall they are excellent.