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Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: Leather Book Making at Earl Hays Press

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--"Alien" Cat Carrier Replica

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Adam Builds a Miniature Vault Door (Part 1)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Adam Builds a Miniature Vault Door (Part 2)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Adam Builds a Miniature Vault Door (Part 3)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Adam Builds an Animatronic Eye Mechanism

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Adam Replicates the Perfect Kilogram Standard

Adam Savage is in a workshop full of different tools and supplies. He holds up a wooden block that has holes in it to hold drill bits that are larger than regular bits for a standard electric drill.

Adam Savage holds a dusty film cue card that has “Tested.com” and his name written on it with white marker. On one strip of tape written in black marker is “8/2” or August 2nd. Under that is another strip of tape with “At-AT Mount” written on it.

Adam Savage stands in his messy workshop. He looks at us with a smile on his face as he holds a flamethrower hose that looks like a high-tech vacuum hose. The house is attached to a tan book bag that is on his back.

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Flat File Tool Storage Cabinet

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Foot Switch-Powered Shop Tools

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Han Solo in Carbonite

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--His Own Lightsaber

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Iron Man Mark 1 Armor Stand

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Knurling Tool Storage

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Kraft Paper Dispenser

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Lathe Diagnostics

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Leaning Tower of Pisa (ft. Zach King)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Machinist Tools Cabinet

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Nagra Recorder Handle Bar

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Princess Cruise Ship Engineering (Bridge)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Princess Cruise Ship Engineering (Cabins)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Princess Cruise Ship Engineering (Domes)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Princess Cruise Ship Engineering (Float Out)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Princess Cruise Ship Engineering (Hull)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Princess Cruise Ship Engineering (Project Management)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Princess Cruise Ship Engineering (Theater)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Princess Cruise Ship Engineering (Tour)

Still image from: Adam Savage's Tested: One Day Builds--Smartphone Camera Rig

Adam Savage holds a dusty film cue card that has “Tested.com” and his name written on it in white marker. On one strip of tape and written in black marker is “7/22”. Next to it says, “O.D.B”. Under that is a strip of tape that has “Glove Box,” written on it.

Adam Savage holds a dusty film cue card that has “Tested.com” and his name written on it. On one strip of tape and written in black marker is “7/27”. Next to it, “O.D.B” in white marker. Under that is a strip of tape that has “Bench Door,” written on it.

People stand in lines with luggage at airport gates.

A board with figures and a heavy object in the center bends downward in the center. Caption: You see that as the load increases, the bridge bends,

A board with interlocking triangular cutout supports running parallel to the board has figures on it and a heavy object in the center. The outermost edges of the triangular supports have buckled. Caption: The outer segments of the truss are the first to break.

A multi-story office building has sections of brick, glass and metal walls extending outward from the building center with lifts and trucks parked outside.

Man wearing jeans and a white sleeveless t-shirt uses a pipe cutter on a P, V, C pipe. The wall next to him has an open access panel exposing P, V, C piping that is under installation.

Wide shot of a cement storage plant that has cement silos, tanks, conveyor belts, and a portable building. Caption. Let's look at cement storage.

Closeup of a gloved hand holding a concrete block as concrete coating is applied with a trowel. Caption. He doesn't want to leave any air pockets.

Outside view of a multi-story wood formwork. Caption. Vertical formwork can be struck the following day.

Cement dumper pours cement into a criss crossing steel reinforcement rod framework. Person's legs stand within the framework. Caption. Avoiding disturbing the formwork, reinforcement.

Closeup of concrete being poured into a form with upside down u-shaped steel rods. Caption. The engineer will tell you what slump is right for your job.

Overhead view of poured concrete with a large pole in the middle of the pour. Caption. We should look in more detail at what is meant by compaction.

Closeup of connecting vertical and horizontal brown metal beams with 3 vertical steel rods extending through the beam connection. Caption. The formwork must provide this finish.

Closeup of a person standing and using a hand-guided circular power trowel on wet concrete. Caption. Are screeded, floated, and trowel finished.

Crane hoists precast concrete panel toward a series of vertical and horizontal steel rods. Vertical rod ends bent at 90 degrees face outward. Caption. And make sure that formwork can be lifted out.

View of steel framing on top of a concrete block structure with 2 openings. Text on image reads, "Safety signs." Caption. You'll become familiar with safety signs.

Digital map titled "Battle of Little Bighorn." A black horse runs west towards Little Bighorn River and the Bighorn Mountains. 3 blue labeled banners for Gibbon, Terry and Custer, and Crook surround the horse, each with an arrow pointing in.

Closeup of 2 side-by-side vertical steel rods and 1 horizontal steel rod touching. Heavy gauge metal wire is looped behind vertical rods and over horizontal rod held in place by someone's fingers. Another wire is under the horizontal rod. Caption. Hairpin tie.

Still image from: Crash Course Kids Engineering: Let's Build a City

A reservoir of water with a dam at one end and water flowing out the other side. Caption: until it's needed by the electric plant.

Digital architectural rendering. Aerial view of grassy fields surrounding an ancient Egyptian city by the water.

Building with a rounded end under construction. Person working on the roof. Spanish captions.

Teenage girl wearing a backpack approaches the front door of an office building.

Small fountains of water erupt from a series of ornamental basins. Manicured greenery in the background.

Color illustration. Bulldozer next to a ditch loading dirt into a dump truck.

Still image from: Grace's Amazing Machines: Building Machines

Wide shot of a construction site with orange and white cones, stacks of building materials, and a front loader. Text below image reads, "Heavy Equipment Operator."

2 working men wearing hard hats lean over a steel frame looking down in the same direction.

Digital rendering. Aerial view of an intersection flanked by modern buildings, populated with pedestrians, and scattered with cars. Caption. We often use 3D modeling and computer-based software."

Still image from: Inevitable Evolution of Fort Frederick: Fort Frederick Tabby Restoration

Panels of glass labeled, "Vidrios," stand to the left of 2 circles that each encapsulate a work glove. Spanish Caption. Juan José Campanella as Narrator. Cuanda se trabaja con vidrios, se utilizan guantes adherentes.

Digital illustration of a shadowy figure bending over towards the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Spanish title card reads, "Torre de Pisa." Spanish caption. En detener la inclinación de la torre.

Still image from: Lab Six: Visual Contamination (Spanish)

Still image from: Learn About Construction With Wayne the Bulldozer & Jake the Skid Steer! A Day at Work

A lighthouse with the sails of ships in the background. Caption: the same natural enemy-- erosion.

Still image from: Make48: Anderson, IN / Purdue Polytechnic University

Still image from: Make48: Beloit, WI / The Lincoln Academy 2022

Still image from: Make48: Beloit, WI / The Lincoln Academy 2023

Still image from: Make48: Bentonville, AR / NorthWest Arkansas Community College

Still image from: Make48: Kansas City, KS / Kansas State School for the Blind 2023

Still image from: Make48: Milwaukee, WI / Institute of Art & Design

Still image from: Make48: Stadium Innovation / UMKC Kansas City, MO (Part 1)

Still image from: Make48: Stadium Innovation / UMKC Kansas City, MO (Part 2)

Still image from: Make48: Wichita, KS / GoCreate

Man operates front loader at a construction site. Caption. Backhoe chugging and whirring.

Color illustration of a crane personified with eyes and holding a teddy bear in its fender. Silhouette of city skyline beneath radiant sun in background.

Two men wearing hard hats stand on a mechanical lift, coating a building's exterior in a layer of white paint. Protective plastic covers the glass doors, windows, and railings.

Still image from: Number 1 Newton Avenue: Stay Up

Low shot looking up along a white Greek column. Caption. From its columns to its foundations.

Multiple shiny skyscrapers against a blue sky seen from below looking up.

Closeup of construction at the top of a skyscraper with surrounding cityscape in the distance.

Dam with no water being released. Caption: (male narrator) Time can take a toll on a dam.

Tool emitting bright light cutting circles into wood. Caption: (narrator) Tools, including this laser cutter and wood router,

Aerial view of a building with plants covering most of the surface area of the roof. Caption: (man) It's a roof of living plants.

Electrical meter box attached to the outside of a building. Caption: All the entries have to be zero-energy homes,

Person standing at the top of a wind turbine. Caption: to see if they can handle 300-foot heights.

Buses and taxis drive on a city street lined with trees and buildings. Caption. It is the foundation of the world's infrastructure.

Architectural model of skyscraper with city below. Caption. This skyscraper will cost $100 billion to construct.

Large rounded rock formation half covered with trees and iridescent light juts out of a forested hillside.

Computer rendering of a Florentine church. Caption. The church of Santa Reparata was renovated and modified.

Still image from: The Henry Ford Innovation Nation With Mo Rocca: Luxury Tree Houses

Still image from: The House That She Built

A large dam spanning across a lake. Caption: It's the world's largest hydroelectric dam.

C, G, I image of a low wall of ice on the ocean in low light. A much bigger and taller perpendicular wall of ice juts out from it. Caption. What's under the sand and what's under the ice?

C, G, I rendering of a tan pyramid being built using several modern cranes with a mountain range in the background.

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Future Living Spaces