Industrial Revelations Season 4
Industrial Revelations is a Documentary show showing the connections between related industrial advances. The show's presenter has changed several times since the first series in 2002 hosted by Mark Williams.
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Industrial Revelations
2002 / NR
Industrial Revelations is a Documentary show showing the connections between related industrial advances. The show's presenter has changed several times since the first series in 2002 hosted by Mark Williams.
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Waterways are flourishing in Europe, but how is it that a system designed for 17th-century trade is still viable in the 21st? Ronald Topp finds out.
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Ronald Top examines how railways conquered the mountains, with a little help from George Stevenson. He's in the Alps to see how funicular railways work.
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Ronald Topp investigates the new techniques and ways of working that turned local potteries into an international industry.
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Flight has always been humanity's dream. Ronald Top discovers that thanks to some paper thrown onto a fire, a duck, a cock and a sheep, it was made possible.
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Ronald Top examines the beginnings of motor cars. Benz and Daimler were early pioneers, but prior to that there were attempts at steam-powered road vehicles.
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Eiffel was the world's greatest exponent of the use of iron in construction, creating the his famous Tower in 1889. How did engineering in iron reach such heights?
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For centuries craftsmen and women turned natural fibres into clothes. Ronald Topp explores what happened when machines began to replace manual labour.
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Cities were traditionally developed around water until the railway age expanded their boundaries. As the population grew, how did they cope?
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How did the building trade keep up with the demand for materials during the expansion of the Industrial Revolution, and what do oranges have to do with it?
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With industrialisation, there were more mouths in towns and cities to feed and fewer men left to work the land. So how did food production keep up?
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