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How It's Made
Season 18 · Episode 12
Top & Bowler Hats, Solar Water Heaters, Sticky Buns, Electrostatic Speakers
10.021mNovember 29, 2011
Felt hat bodies are steamed, stretched over wooden forms and trimmed into top hats and bowlers. Absorbing collectors, pipes and insulated tanks are assembled into solar water-heating systems; enriched dough is rolled with a sweet filling, sliced and baked into sticky buns; and a thin charged diaphragm is suspended between perforated panels to create electrostatic speakers.
Episodes
- Episode 1Patterned Glass Panels, Road Cases, Stop-Frame Animation
- Episode 2Industrial Wire Ropes, Living Walls, Large Format Cameras, Gemstones
- Episode 3Chocolate Coins, Floor Heating Systems, Pedal Cars, Latex Swords
- Episode 4Farmed Caviar, Intake Manifolds, Motorcycle Jackets, Shovels & Spades
- Episode 5Wax Figures, Awnings, Sandwich Crackers, Pewter Tankards
- Episode 6Pipe Cleaners, Blue Stilton Cheese, Smart Electric Meters, Telescopes
- Episode 7Fish Replicas, Siren Systems, Pre-Packaged Sandwiches, Candlesticks