If that complex sequence of processes fascinates you, you’ll enjoy Tim Minshall’s “How Things Are Made.” Mr. Minshall, who teaches about manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, seems ...

Officials at the DuPage Children’s Museum are hoping a new exhibit about the manufacture of everyday items will help kids understand how finished products are made and inspire them to conside… ...

How are things made? In this video I take a look at the different types of manufacturing processes - forming, casting, molding, machining, joining and additive manufacturing - which are used to ...

On family vacations, take kids to these five factory tours, where they can learn how their favorite things are made.

How Things Are Made, by Tim Minshall (Ecco). In this lively book, Minshall, the head of Cambridge University’s Institute for Manufacturing, assumes the role of an excitable engineer as he ...

One of the very first things you learn upon loading "Made's" homepage is that the video-rich nature of the content is best suited to a broadband connection.

If your kids want to know more about how things are made, check out this episode from “Million Bazillion” where we answer the question: “Why are so many things made in China?” and really ...

At DaVinci Science Center’s new exhibit, kids can see how a baseball bat is made using a lathe, check out an “exploded bike” and try vacuum-forming to turn a flat plastic disc int… ...

How Things Are Made is an improvisational trio performing and using natural sounds.

Take a fun and informative factory tour to see how made-in-the-USA goods, from jelly beans to kaleidoscopes, come to life.

From pretzels to pianos, factory tours reveal how things are made.

Now, the "slow fashion" movement is in the same spirit. "It's about understanding the process or the origins of how things are made," says Soraya Darabi, co-founder of the clothing line Zady.