Pop culture heats up with metalcasting.Metalcasting is an integral part of many industries, so it's no surprise that it has been featured on television several times in the past few years. Behind the scenes-type shows like Dirty Jobs Dirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, and/or messy occupational duties alongside professional workers. The show premiered with three pilot episodes in November 2003. With Mike Rowe and John Ratzenberger's Made in America John Ratzenberger's Made in America is a thirty minute American television series hosted by John Ratzenberger which currently airs on The Travel Channel. Ratzenberger visits various American manufacturers, taking the show's viewers along on the tours and showing how have advertised the metalcasting process. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dirty Jobs With Mike Rowe, Discovery Channel * Season 2, Episode 17: Rowe learns how shower drains are made at Lincoln Foundry, Erie, Pa. Original air date: 3/7/06. * Season 2, Episode 35: Rowe visits McShane Bell Foundry The McShane Bell Foundry, located in Glen Burnie, Maryland, is a maker of church bells. Since its founding in 1856 by Henry McShane, it has produced over 300,000 bells; at one time, the foundry also produced pipes and plumbing fixtures. , Glen Burnie, Md., to follow the steps of the bell-making process. Original air date: 12/12/06. Good Eats Good Eats is a television cooking show created and hosted by Alton Brown that airs in North America on Food Network. Likened to television science educators Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye, Brown explores the science and technique behind the cooking, the history of different foods, , Food Network * Season 4, Episode 3: Fry Hard II. The Chicken. Lodge Manufacturing Company, South Pittsburg, Tenn., makes cast iron skillets. Original air date: 4/25/01. Modern Marvels Modern Marvels is a documentary television series on The History Channel that answers the question of how many things in the modern world are possible, and where they came from. , History Channel * Season 4, Episode 1: American Steel.. Built to Last takes a look at the revolution and evolution of the American steel industry. Original air date: 1/18/98. * Season 9, Episode 42: Metal. This episode traces the importance and uses of metal from the Bronze Age to current times. Original air date: 8/19/03. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Season 12, Episode 19: Heavy Metals heavy metals, n.pl metallic compounds, such as aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, and nickel. Exposure to these metals has been linked to immune, kidney, and neurotic disorders. : Copper, Uranium, Chromium, Lead, Nickel and Zinc. The show examines elements essential to America's economy and military. Original air date: 6/14/06. * Season 12, Episode 30: Copper. The metal's impressive traits, long history and mining procedure are explored in this episode. Original air date: 9/13/06. * Season 13, Episode 23: Aluminum. It is stretched, pounded, melted and turned into foam. Original air date: 7/25/07. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Amazing Race, CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. * Season 9, Episode 5: Contestants are faced with a choice between two tasks, metalcasting or laundry, as they race to their final destination. Original air date: 3/21/07. John Ratzenberger's Made In America, Travel Channel * Season 1, Episode 17: Remo drum parts are made in a metalcasting facility. Original air date: 5/4/04. * Season 2, Episode 12: Ratzenberger visits the Kohler bathtub metalcasting facility in Wisconsin. Original air date: 3/29/05. Video Games * Sonic and the Secret Rings Sonic and the Secret Rings, (formerly known by the working title Sonic Wild Fire), is a video game within the Sonic the Hedgehog series that was released exclusively for the Wii on February 20, 2007 in North America, in Europe on March 2, 2007 includes an industrial level called "Evil Foundry." * Tony Hawk ProSkater 3 features a "foundry level" where garners can work on their grinding skills in a metalcasting facility. |
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