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Discovery communications
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Narrator: a taser device
Fires bursts of electricity
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To deliver a high-voltage,
Low-amp shock
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That temporarily
Disables the subject.
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Invented in 1969 by
An american aerospace scientist,
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The taser has become a weapon
Of choice
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For police forces
Around the world.
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Today, when an officer
Reaches for his or her gun,
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It's often one without bullets.
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From a cartridge on the front,
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The taser
Fires electrified darts,
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Which, on impact,
Cause muscle contractions
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In the target's subject.
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The subject is immobilized
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But usually recovers
In a few minutes.
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This metal capsule contains
The propellant, pressurized gas.
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A robotic arm inserts the
Capsule in a plastic chamber.
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The next robot places a part,
Called the primer disc,
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On the capsule.
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It contains chemicals
To generate a mini explosion
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That will drive pins
Into the capsule,
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Releasing the gas.
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Another robot
Adds a protective screen.
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That's the primer disc
On the left
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And the screen on the right.
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They punch out a round piece
Of foam,
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And the robot thrusts it into
The chamber and tamps it down.
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After welding it in place
With ultrasonic vibrations,
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A robot flips the unit up and
Into a second plastic chamber.
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The placement leaves
Just enough space
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Between the inner
And outer chambers
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For wire bundles
To be inserted later.
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A robot then tucks the assembly
Into the plastic cartridge.
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It has slots
For other components,
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Like insulated
Copper-wire bundles.
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A machine winds the wire in
A tight figure-eight formation.
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This wire will electrify
The darts as they're deployed,
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And the figure-eight winding
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Reduces the possibility
Of tangling.
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A worker places two bundles
In the designated spaces
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In the cartridge.
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He tops each bundle with a piece
Of strong polyester film.
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It keeps the wire pack
From spring apart
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As he slides it off the fork and
Presses it into the cartridge.
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He's now ready
For the barbed taser darts.
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He threads the end of each wire
Bundle through one and knots it.
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He installs the darts
In the cartridge,
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Using a special tool
To seat them correctly.
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He selects plastic wedges --
One for each wire --
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And wraps the other end
Of the wires around it.
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He attaches electrodes
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To facilitate the flow
Of electricity
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To the cartridge.
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The next part
Is called the blast door.
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It will blast apart
And break in two
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As the taser darts are deployed.
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The robot snaps it in place
On top of the cartridge.
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The door is color-coded
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To signify the range
Of the dart probes.
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Yellow indicates five yards.
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With the compressed-air
Cartridge complete,
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They now focus on the
Taser's deployment mechanisms.
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A technician
Installs a laser system
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And two l.E.D. Lights
In the plastic casing.
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The laser is an aide for
Aiming the electrified darts,
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And the lights
Will illuminate the target.
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He adjusts the laser's aim
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To sync it
With one of the darts,
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Using a bull's-eye target
As an alignment aide.
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Next, they immerse
The high-voltage board
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In epoxy resin
And pump more directly into it.
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This board is in the part
Of the taser gun
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That generates electrical pulses
When the gun is in stun mode.
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Once cured,
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The epoxy encapsulates this unit
To insulate the components.
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The technician
Inserts the high-voltage board
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In the gun casing.
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Along with
The controller board --
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The brains of the taser --
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He also installs
An information display board
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And makes
The necessary connections.
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He plugs the assembly
Into a power source
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And tests the laser
And l.E.D. Lights.
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He snaps on the trigger
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And confirms
That it makes contact
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With the plunger
On the control board.
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He joins the other half
Of the taser casing
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To the one
With all the working parts.
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Then, an ultrasonic welder
Fuses the casing parts
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At the tongue and groove seams.
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Protecting the outer casing
With a sheet of plastic,
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The technician welds
A safety switch to the trigger.
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This critical part will prevent
Accidental deployment.
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In a test chamber now,
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They activate the taser
Without the air cartridge.
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Without the cartridge
And its projectile darts,
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The taser works
As a handheld stun gun
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To zap the target directly.
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Once it meets
The tester's approval,
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This taser is ready
For the police beat.
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A consumer model
Is also approved
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For use in some jurisdictions.
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Like the police version,
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It should deliver
A shocking performance.
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Narrator:
Soup is a liquid food
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That is as old
As cooking itself.
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Its appeal
Is quite literally biblical
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Because in the old testament,
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A son trades his inheritance
For a pot of lentil soup.
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Of course, today,
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One doesn't have to
Sacrifice it all for soup
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Because it's usually
Readily available in cans.
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With the invention of canning
In the early 19th century,
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Soup soon became available
On demand.
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On the home front,
This caused quite a stir.
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No need for a long simmer.
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Just open the can,
Reheat, and soup's on.
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To manufacture lentil soup,
They make a hearty soup base.
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They load measured amounts
Into a heated mixer,
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Beginning with purée garlic.
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The mixer's walls
Are steam-jacketed
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So the mix will cook evenly
With no scorching on the bottom.
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The next ingredient
Is olive oil.
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They activate the steam heat,
And the garlic begins to sizzle.
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They add chopped onion.
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The mixing blades gently toss
The ingredients as they sauté.
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They blend in diced celery
And cook until translucent.
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The next round of ingredients
Takes the flavor up a notch.
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They include chopped carrots,
Sea salt, and fragrant spices.
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Balsamic vinegar
Adds a sweet tartness
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To this lentil-soup base.
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They're now ready
To liquify the ingredients.
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They open the tap,
And filtered water spills in.
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As the soup begins to simmer,
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They add crushed
And diced tomatoes.
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The final ingredient
For this robust lentil-soup base
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Is spinach.
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Mixing it
Makes for a colorful swirl,
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And, as the ingredients cook,
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They become
Increasingly aromatic.
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Meanwhile, raw, peeled potatoes
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Ride a steep
And slatted conveyor upward.
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The slats keep the potatoes
From rolling back
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As they make the climb
Up to a hopper.
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From the hopper,
The potatoes slide down a chute
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And into a revolving drum
With cross-cutting blades.
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The blades cut the spuds into
Small cubes and spit them out.
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After a trip
Past a metal detector,
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The potato cubes land in a bin.
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In small-cube form,
They'll cook faster later.
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Next, lentils, hard and dried,
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Surge in a steady stream
Onto a revolving round table.
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The table has openings that lead
To little chutes with doors.
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They open to funnel the lentils
Into cans
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Moving on a conveyor below.
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This ensures that a specific
Amount is fed into the cans.
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Partially cooked green beans
And the raw potato cubes
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Now flow
Onto a second revolving table.
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The cans with the lentils have
Now moved into position below.
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The veggies fall through
The holes and into the cans.
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The cans, with mostly
Uncooked ingredients,
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Now head towards
The piston filler.
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It pipes the steaming hot
Vegetable-soup base
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Directly from the kettle mixer
Into the cans,
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Filling them to the brim.
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Immersed in the hot liquid,
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The lentils, potatoes,
And green beans
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At the base of the can
Cook a little and soften up.
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Sensors detect the approach
Of the cans and cue the lids.
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The lids drop one by one
Onto the cans below.
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A device then
Interlocks the rims of the cans
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And the lids
For a hermetic seal.
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The cans move into another lane
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And travel past
An x-ray machine.
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It scans the soup inside
For metal contaminants
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Like stray bolts or screws.
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If the images are clear,
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The cans of soup move on
To a giant pressure cooker.
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Here, the contents cook under
Pressure for about a half hour.
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Pressure-cooking simulates
The effect of a long simmer
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In a fraction of the time.
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The soup then cools
For 10 minutes.
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It is now thoroughly cooked
And preserved.
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Now on their sides
With glue applied,
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The cans of lentil soup
Roll over labels,
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And the labels adhere.
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They produce more than 15,000
Cans of lentil soup an hour
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At this factory.
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That's 105,000 cans
In one shift.
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It's enough
To feed a small city.
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Narrator:
The jaw harp and the mouth bow
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Are among the earliest
Musical instruments.
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A chinese drawing
From the 4th century b.C.
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Is believed to be the first
Record of a musician
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Playing a jaw harp,
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And cave paintings
In southern france
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From 15,000 b.C.
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Depict someone
Playing a mouth bow.
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The mouth bow
Is a stick of wood
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With a single string
The musician plucks or strums,
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While altering the
Vibration-generated sound
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By mouth.
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The jaw harp
Is a metal instrument.
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The musician
Plucks its flexible tongue
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To produce a twanging sound,
Which he then modulates
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With mouth positions
And breathing.
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This craftsman
Makes the jaw harp's frame
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Out of 1/10 of an inch thick
Square steel rod.
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He measures and marks the
Required length and bend points.
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He cuts the length
With a standard hacksaw...
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Clamps the rod in a vice...
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Then slips metal pipes
Over the ends
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To prevent them
From twisting as he bends them
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To form the arms of the frame.
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He aligns the arms,
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Leaving just enough space
Between them
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To allow the tongue
To vibrate without obstruction.
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For the instrument
To produce quality sound,
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The arms must be perfectly
Parallel to each other --
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Their edges in mirror image.
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He marks the tongue's position
In between the arms
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And files down the metal
Within the markings.
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This creates a notch
In which the tongue will sit.
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The tongue
Is made of spring steel --
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A type of steel,
Which when bent,
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Resumes its original shape.
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Before attaching it,
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He saws a tiny undercut
In each side of the notch.
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Then he inserts the tongue
And hammers the undercut sides
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To compress them over the tongue
And lock it into position.
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He heats the tip of the tongue
With a propane torch.
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Once the metal softens
Enough to bend,
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He angles the tip to form
What's called the trigger.
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Then he heats the end
Of the trigger
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And bends it into a loop.
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This is what
The musician's finger strikes
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To make the tongue vibrate.
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Finally, he files
The tongue's edges sharp --
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A last detail to improve
The instrument's sound quality.
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To make a mouth bow,
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His first step
Is to find a stick
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That's between roughly 1 1/2
To 6 1/2 feet long,
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Not too heavy,
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And ideally
With a "T" shape at the end.
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In his workshop,
He clamps it in a vice,
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Trims it to the required length,
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And, using a rasp,
Files the knots flat.
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He files the top end until it's
About 2/10 of an inch thick.
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This forms the mouthpiece,
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Which you hold gently
To your lips
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While plucking the string.
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The string
Vibrates the mouthpiece,
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Producing sounds that you alter
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By changing the shape
Of your mouth.
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He drills a hole toward the base
Of the mouthpiece
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For the string,
Then, just below that,
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Files a notch for the bridge
That supports the string.
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Just below the notch, he hammers
In a steel nail called the pin.
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He drills a 2/10 of an inch hole
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At the "T"-shaped end
Of the stick.
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This is where he'll insert
The tuning peg,
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Which he constructs
Out of a wood knob and dow.
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He makes the string
From a length of piano wire.
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He forms a loop at one end
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By twisting it with pliers
Around an awl.
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He feeds this end
Through the hole
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At the base of the mouthpiece...
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...And hooks the loop
Onto the pin.
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Then he threads the other end
Of the string
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Through a hole in the shaft
At the tuning peg
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At the bottom of the stick.
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He turns the peg
To tighten the string.
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Just as on a violin or a guitar,
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The tauter the string,
The higher the note it produces.
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[ creaking ]
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[ creaking continues ]
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The final step
Is to position the bridge --
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A hardwood dow --
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In its notch,
Under the tense string.
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By elevating the top
Of the string,
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The bridge prevents it
From cutting into the stick.
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The mouth bow and the jaw harp
Are played alone
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Or alongside other instruments
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In the folk music of numerous
Cultures around the world.
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Narrator: the earliest known
Reference to a diving board
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Appears in a hieroglyphic
From 480 b.C.
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It depicts a man plunging
Headfirst into a pool of water
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From a platform.
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Today, diving boards
Are standard equipment
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At neighborhood
And backyard swimming pools.
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One end of the diving board
Is fixed
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To give the other end
The bounce required
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For a big-splash cannonball
Or a graceful swan dive.
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To make the diving-board shell,
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Workers load a sheet
Of acrylic
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Into a clamping machine
That transports it into an oven.
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The oven heats the sheet for
About 30 seconds to soften it.
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Then, a forming machine
Applies suction
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To draw the softened acrylic
Tightly over a mold
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In the shape
Of two diving boards.
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Fans blow cool air,
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Hardening the acrylic
To this shape within seconds.
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They extract the molded acrylic,
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Then saw it in half to separate
The two diving-board shells.
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They coat the shell surface in
A resin and fiberglass mixture.
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This tool
Is called a chopper gun
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Because it chops and shreds
The fiberglass string,
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Then shoots it out
Drenched in resin.
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They roll it to compress the
Fibers and push out air pockets.
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Any trapped air would create
A weak spot in the diving board.
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After letting the resin dry
And harden for 30 minutes,
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They begin
Filling the shell cavity
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With 2/10 of an inch thick
Fiberglass mat.
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They drench the mat in resin,
Rolling it over
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To ensure every fraction
Of an inch gets well-saturated.
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Then they lay down
Another fiberglass mat,
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This one a bit thinner
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And saturated
With the existing resin.
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The diving board's core
Is made of laminated wood,
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Which is several thin layers
Of wood glued together.
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Laminated wood
Is actually stronger
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Than a solid piece of wood.
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After rounding the top edge,
They lay two wood-laminate cores
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Over the
Resin-saturated fiberglass mats.
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They position clamps
To hold the cores in place.
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But before tightening,
They insert metal spacers
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To ensure the cores
Are correctly positioned
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Within the shell.
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Once the positioning is perfect,
They tighten the clamps,
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Then let the resin cure
At room temperature
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For a half hour or so.
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Then the clamps come off,
And workers cover the cores
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With an even thicker fiberglass
Mat impregnated with resin.
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This is the bottom
Of the diving board.
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They make sure the mat
Is centered...
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Then manually form it
To the shape of the board,
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Pushing out the air pockets
As they go.
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They spray on
Some decorative paint,
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Then put the board in an oven
For 24 hours to cure.
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When it comes out,
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They use a diamond blade
To saw off the excess fiberglass
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Around the edge.
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Then they do a final trimming
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00:20:00,448 --> 00:20:02,620
To make the edge neat
And smooth.
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They mask the sides with tape,
Leaving only the top exposed.
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This is where they'll now apply
A rough texture --
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A safe, non-slip surface.
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First, they roll on
A thin coat of resin.
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Onto that, they sprinkle a layer
Of silica sand,
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Making sure to cover the surface
Thoroughly and evenly.
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The sand sticks to the resin,
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Which sets and cures
In about 15 minutes.
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After sweeping off the
Excess sand that didn't adhere,
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They roll on a coat
Of laminating resin,
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Which bonds to the sand,
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Giving the surface a clean,
Finished look.
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They pull off the tape
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And apply the
Manufacture's decal to the side.
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The diving board is now all set
To be installed
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On a stand
At the edge of the deep end
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To await anyone
Ready to take the plunge.
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If you have any comments
About the show,
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Topics for future shows,
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