What the Victorians Did for Us

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  • Iniziato: Set 2001
  • Episodi: 8
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  • BBC
  • Sconosciuto
  • Documentary

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Speed Merchants
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Data di messa in onda
Set 03, 2001
This edition focuses on the Victorian obsession with speed, and the impact of steam power on farming. After visiting the last steam-powered mill in the country, he experiences the legacy .. show full overview
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Playing God
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Data di messa in onda
Set 10, 2001
Looks at science and medicine, including devices designed for waking the dead and the eccentric experimenter who reputedly created life.
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Rule Makers
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Data di messa in onda
Set 17, 2001
Hart-Davis finds out how the rules for sports such as tennis and football evolved, and discovers how standardisation in manufacturing made new inventions, such as the sewing machine, affordable.
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Crime And Punishment
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Data di messa in onda
Set 24, 2001
Focusing on the Victorian world of crime and retribution, he experiences life on the beat as an early policeman and looks at the forensic tests developed to catch poisoners. Plus the monotony of prison life, and early home security.
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Social Progress
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Data di messa in onda
Ott 01, 2001
How the opportunities in employment and education created the middle classes and gave them such luxuries as their own toilets, frozen foods, and improved healthcare. The rich, meanwhile, could indulge in new gadgets such as the velocipede shower.
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Conquerors
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Ott 08, 2001
In this edition, he visits Kew Gardens to examine the plants which explorers brought back from abroad and experiences the science of storm prediction. Plus a demonstration of the .. show full overview
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Making It Big
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Data di messa in onda
Ott 15, 2001
The dramatic successes and failures of Victorian entrepreneurs, including William Armstrong, who installed a swing bridge in Newcastle, and Otis whose lift made the skyscraper possible.
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Pleasure Seekers
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Data di messa in onda
Ott 22, 2001
Leisure, the seaside, weekends. They seem natural, but they were all Victorian inventions. The Victorians were freed from the fields and had cash in hand; they were the first mass pleasure seekers.

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