Summary: This program examines the enormous impact of the introduction of railways, covering the technological revolution, the commercial and human reactions that culminated in Railway Mania, and the economic and social results: the increased demand for coal and iron, the delivery of fresh food and milk in cities, the reduction of local isolation and differences, the requirement of new management...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The history of the development of coal, iron, and steam during the Industrial Revolution is extensive and complex. In the era of the microchip, it is easy to overlook the critical role of the steam engine in powering the 19th-century machine. This program looks at the role of water power, examines Newcomen's and Watt's machines, looks at the interdependence of steam, coal, and iron and at the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Preindustrial society managed with toll roads, but industrialization required low-cost, efficient transportation systems. This program examines developments in road building and the revolutionary impact of canals, and charts the rise and subsequent decline of canals as a good example of social and technological change.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program looks on urban landscapes as a series of layers of architectural evidence, each of which is the key to another chapter in the history of the area, and another chapter in the way people's lifestyles have been changed by technology. The program examines how industrialization led to urbanization, which led to higher rents, overcrowding, and problems of sanitation, which in turn led to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: How were people's working lives affected by industrialization, and how did they react to these changes? This program concentrates on the crucial century of radical change between 1750 and 1850, when large numbers of people began for the first time to work in factories rather than on the land, and when agriculture had to adapt to provide for an expanding population. The program also covers the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: One of the most effective engines of change is war. This program examines what happened when some of the brightest minds of the Industrial Revolution applied their skills to the field of battle. Host Dan Cruickshank takes viewers on a tour of military innovation, from camouflage and rifled gun barrels to David Bushnell's ingenious submarine and William Congreve's terrifying war rockets, which...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Industrialization not only changed the face of Western society-it also made people sick. Overcrowded cities, harsh working conditions, and newfound mobility all conspired to imperil public health. In this program, host Dan Cruickshank traces the developments in medicine that took place during-and were often inspired by-the Industrial Revolution. Pioneering Englishmen such as William Withering,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the space of 60 years, England transformed itself from a rural economy into an industrial powerhouse. This program tells the story of the innovations and innovators from the Industrial Revolution who changed the world of work, including John Smeaton's ground-breaking experiments with waterwheels, Richard Arkwright's revolutionary thread factories, and James Watt's fateful partnership with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program chronicles the transportation revolution of England's industrial age, which not only transformed the way people and things are moved from place to place, but forever altered people's relationship to distance and time-the world began to shrink, and horizons to expand. Examined in this program are John McAdam's system for improving road surfaces; Thomas Telford's hugely ambitious...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With the rise of industry came the rise of the cities. In this program, host Dan Cruickshank scours London to examine how the mechanisms of industrialization generated urban life as people know it today. Mass production enabled a growing swathe of society to enjoy high-quality products and created a new and instantly recognizable world: the modern home. Chemistry also stoked the fires of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program investigates how England's insatiable appetite for tea, cotton, and china fueled that country's industrial revolution. Driven by ingenious inventions such as the Newcomen steam engine, the spinning jenny, and the flying shuttle, mass production took England by storm. At the same time, the globe-trotting expeditions of Captain James Cook did more than chart exotic lands-they also...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006