Industrial Revelations

  • Premiered: Jan 2002
  • Episodes: 46
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
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  • Documentary

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Season 2
2x1
Bread and Beer
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 10, 2005
Comedian Mark Williams explains how 19th-century Britons drank beer as a healthy alternative to water because the fermentation process killed many harmful bacteria
2x2
What to Wear?
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Air date
Jan 17, 2005
Mark Williams discovers how 19th-century hats were made of rabbit fur that had been shrunk in urine
2x3
Gas on Wheels
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Air date
Jan 24, 2005
The use of gas to power the machines and inventions from the Industrial Revolution are explained by Mark Williams
2x4
Print and Paper
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 31, 2005
In a look at the history of printing, Mark Williams discovers why early typesetters arranged lower-case letters according to their usage, with the most common being in the middle
2x5
Under Pressure
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 07, 2005
Mark Williams visits a pub cellar and bridges across the Tyne, all powered by hydraulics, revealing how the beer pump started a power revolution
2x6
Building a Revolution
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Air date
Feb 14, 2005
Documentary exploring how the massive construction boom triggered by the Industrial Revolution forced the building industry to find new materials to cope with increasing demand.
2x7
Bright Sparks
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Air date
Feb 21, 2005
How the electricity industry was created from scientific experimentation and entrepreneurial enthusiasm - becoming the world's main power source.
2x8
Heavy Metals
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Air date
Feb 28, 2005
The development of the Cornish mining industry, from pebble-picking in streams to the building of a honeycomb of mines below the sea
2x9
Cutting it Fine
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Air date
Mar 07, 2005
How silk was instrumental in the invention of the binary code, which went on to inspire the computer revolution.
2x10 Season finale
Machine Tools
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 14, 2005
Mark Williams learns about Joseph Whitworth, the man who standardised the threaded screw. Plus, the total cost of wood required to build HMS Victory

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