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Bill takes apart a light bulb to show how engineers make its filament.

Bill takes apart a smoke detector showing how it uses radioactivity to monitor for smoke.

Bill tears apart a liquid crystal display to show how it works.

Bill takes apart a computer hard drive to show how it's engineered to store data.

Bill uses a pile of mobile phones to illustrate the 7 basic constraints that shape them.

Bill uses a bucket of propylene glycol to show how a fiber optic cable works and to show how engineers used them to send signals across oceans.