HOW THINGS WORK

Restaurants kept refilling Heinz bottles with cheap Ketchup, so Heinz made one simple label change that helped protect its $25 Billion brand. 🍅🧠

Crawling through the crew tunnel of a B 29 Superfortress. The narrow pressurized tunnel connects the forward and rear crew compartments, allowing aircrew to move between sections while in flight at high altitude.

You know that strange grinding sound before a plane takes off? ✈️ Ever wondered what that noise was? Here is your answer!

Give this forklift driver a pay rise! 😂

Before climate control, a crank out windshield turned moving air into ventilation. 💨

Before modern LCD & LED screens, this was cutting edge technology!

Visitors once relied on manual brass doorbells powered by pure mechanical force. One twist would trigger a hidden chime inside the door.

The Manufacturing process for a modern wash basin 🚰

This 100+ year old baby chair already solved what modern brands are charging $1000 for today.

Inside a running engine, a see-through valve cover exposes the full mechanical precision.

Experiment to show just how fast a woodchipper can pull you in.. 😮

No high tech machinery here..

Old trucks used a mechanical backup bell that rang when the wheels turned in reverse. No wires needed, just simple engineering.

A "server room" located below the cockpit of an Airbus A350.

What is going on here! 😂

Before spark plugs, engines relied on make and break ignition. Watch the mechanical contacts separate to create each spark 💥

A Bucket Wheel Excavator (BWE) is one of the largest and most powerful earthmoving machines ever built, primarily used in large-scale surface mining operations.

Restaurants kept refilling Heinz bottles with cheap Ketchup, so Heinz made one simple label change that helped protect its $25 Billion brand. 🍅🧠

Exothermic welding creates a permanent molecular bond in seconds.