The ingeneous design of the aluminum beverage can

Holy crap is the aluminum can complicated.

Maybe I should stop throwing them into the back of m'pick up truck and just letting them blow away into the coutryside.

Seriously, though, the aluminum can is - as are so many of our modern technologies - an absolute marvel of engineering. The number of steps involved in turning a 0.3"-thick aluminum disk into the finished can is stunning. Also stunning, by the way, are the examples that The Engineering Guy has along every step of the process. I'm desperately curious - and more than a little envious - as to how he got his hands on all of those.

After the jump I'll include all the videos he references at the end of the above video.