Industrial Revelations

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Bread, Beer and Salt
Episode overview
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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Building Europe
Episode overview
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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The City
Episode overview
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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Cotton, Linen and Rope
Episode overview
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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Eiffel's Tower
Episode overview
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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Exploding Engines
Episode overview
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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High Fliers
Episode overview
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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Perfect Porcelain
Episode overview
Ronald Topp investigates the new techniques and ways of working that turned local potteries into an international industry.
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Steaming up the Alps
Episode overview
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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Swedish Waterways
Episode overview
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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