That's remarkable. I'm a pretty good teacher, but one of the things I fail to convey--though I try--is the sheer grandeur of large scale industrial processes and industrial processes in general. The forces required, the degree of precision, the wealth of knowledge and experience drawn on, the vital utility of the work. I used to teach a book that described the work of a pattern maker, who has to be able to make of model of a part, exactly small enough to account for enlargement in casting, crafted and smooth and polished so that casting medium would not stick and the mold would break cleanly, while still retaining full functionality of the part under stress. I would highlight the passage and read it in class to try to convey how admirable and astonishing this was, and the students would mostly have that look in their eyes that "why is this guy so excited about this?"
I force them to watch some of this series about the functions of WWII analog fire control computers, which could track a moving target from a moving battleship with considerable accuracy; all the calculations done with slide rules, all the machining of the immensely complicated device, roughly the size of a side by side washer and drier set, done by hand.
https://vimeo.com/340223785A few of them, you can see their jaws drop.