How Toilets Are Made
In How Toilets Are Made, presenter Cherry Healey visits a toilet factory in Staffordshire. Watch the three-day process that each toilet goes through from being shaped to glazed and fired in a kiln. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in the factories that make our favorite products.
Lesson Express
Q: How does the factory use technology to create toilets? What work is still done by hand?
A: They use technology to mold the toilets, to produce multiple toilets at a time, and to heat the toilets. People still smooth out the toilets and trim the lip inside the toilet to make them uniform.
Q: What happens when the toilets are heated?
A: They are dried and are smaller at the end.
Q: What did you learn about toilets? What surprised you about the process of making toilets?
A: Student responses will vary.
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