# Teach me about how tiny metal objects are manufactured **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 24, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-about-how-tiny-metal-objects-are-manufactured/702340 "2014-10-24T11:42:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-about-how-tiny-metal-objects-are-manufactured/702340/21 "2014-10-26T00:32:00Z")
> [@Textual\_Innuendo](#): > > Did anyone else watch that video **am77497** posted?? It seems preposterous that making 100 hypodermics at a time would take have that much human involvement and intervention at so many steps, only to ultimately be sold for pennies. > > Is that true? Do they just show a more human-intensive process for the How It’s Made show? And they missed out sterilising and packaging. I live in Redditch England which at one time was the major manufacturing town in the world for sewing needles and fish hooks. The process was done in many stages, partly in sheds at peoples homes, and partly in factories. The final stage was grinding and polishing. Grinders were well paid but had a short life span due to inhaling the dust. More recently they switched to medical needles and my mother-in-law worked at the last factory left here that made them. She worked in a ‘clean’ room, packing by hand the very fine needles used by ophthalmic surgeons. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_York](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_York](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_York)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-about-how-tiny-metal-objects-are-manufactured/702340/22 "2014-10-26T01:00:21Z")
And I thought they made copper wire by trying to pull a penny from a Scotsmans hand. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-about-how-tiny-metal-objects-are-manufactured/702340.md?page=1)