Home-Style Cooking, HD TVs, Cowboy Boots Visit a production line that serves up home-style cooking, 60,000 burritos at a time. It's a different dish every day on this flexible production line, and you'll discover their secrets for making food taste farm fresh even after being on ice. Next, you're behind the scenes as the world's largest hi-def video screen is built from the ground up. See how a display the size of a ten-story building starts with a tiny high-powered light bulb. Then, it's off to a factory in cowboy country where they've been crafting cowboy boots for generations. See how they turn over seventy-five different kinds of skins and leather into fashionable and functional footwear.
Blue Jeans, Trumpets, Footballs A Texas factory makes tough denim out of fluffy cotton blossoms - and styles blue jeans to look worn and frayed in all the right places. Then, see how a flat sheet of brass and a handful of parts, morph into perfect-pitch trumpets. Craftsmen beat, bend, buff and even freeze the metal to form the signature curves of this historical instrument. And, a ticket to the birthplace of every NFL football made since 1941. Get an up-close look at the tried and true techniques for turning cowhides into pigskins.
Construction Business, Renewable Carpets, Top-Secret Ink Factory Made takes you to a factory that has helped transform the construction business, and makes the bad-weather damage to buildings a thing of the past. Then, find out how old carpet becomes new again! The mountains of carpet waste that used to pile up in landfills have found their way back to the factory for recycling - laying the foundation for a beautiful new carpet. And we'll show you some rocket science - how the ballpoint pen of the astronauts is made. It involves top-secret gooey ink and a vacuum chamber that make writing upside-down a breeze.
Postage Stamps, Motorcycles, Tequila Learn how a printing-press produces five million dollars worth of stamps in about three days, using microscopic detail and invisible ink to prevent counterfeits. Then, take a classic trip to a company that makes motorcycles to cruise the open road with speed, style and comfort. See how almost 900 pounds of metal never felt so good. Next, a distillery brews juice from a Mexican plant into top-notch tequila. Hear the real story behind the worms in the bottles.
Episode 5 Factory Made shows why the United States Mint needs a pizza-sized sculpture to make heads and tails on quarters. Then, how a washing machine produces more "G" force then a rocket shuttle lift off. And, how today's fishing rods are built the hi-tech way.
Episode 6 On Factory Made - find out how much safety can be packed into a thin sheet of glass for windshields. Next, take a trip to a company that has been making hang gliders for decades. Then - from gliding to zooming: watch Cessna build its fastest jet ever.
Episode 7 Factory Made takes you inside the largest combine harvester factory in the world. Then learn how real diamonds are cooked up in a lab. And - see how the machines that make your favorite ball game and carnival treats are built.
Episode 8 On Factory Made - see how a Utility Terrain Vehicle goes from a pile of metal parts to an off-road powerhouse. Then, see how traffic signals are made to green-light your way in any weather. And find out how your dream house can be built in a factoy.
