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Industrial Revelations

All Episodes 2002 - 2007
NR

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  • 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 23h (46 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
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.

46 episodes

Series Premiere

2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

1x01 Boom Time

Series Premiere

1x01 Boom Time

  • 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z30m

The introduction of Britain's canal system. Plus, how coal transportation was crucial to the Industrial Revolution.

2002-01-17T00:00:00Z

1x02 Pants for All

1x02 Pants for All

  • 2002-01-17T00:00:00Z30m

Mark Williams discovers how comfortable cotton fabrics became available to everyone with the introduction of water-powered textile mills

2002-01-24T00:00:00Z

1x03 Clocking On

1x03 Clocking On

  • 2002-01-24T00:00:00Z30m

Mark Williams discovers how engineer James Brindley tunnelled through hills in a straight line, and details the emergence of Josiah Wedgwood's pottery business as a global industry

2002-01-31T00:00:00Z

1x04 Pennine Passage

1x04 Pennine Passage

  • 2002-01-31T00:00:00Z30m

How the Leeds and Liverpool Canal turned two rival counties into hotbeds of activity, bringing wealth to mill owners during the Industrial Revolution

2002-02-07T00:00:00Z

1x05 Working Iron

1x05 Working Iron

  • 2002-02-07T00:00:00Z30m

How Thomas Telford and the Darby family used iron to create new transport routes during the Industrial Revolution.

2002-02-14T00:00:00Z

1x06 Coining It

1x06 Coining It

  • 2002-02-14T00:00:00Z30m

Mark Williams visits Birmingham to experience what life was like during the Industrial Revolution for those employed in the glassworks and jewellery trades

2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

1x07 Cutting Edge

1x07 Cutting Edge

  • 2002-02-21T00:00:00Z30m

How mass-produced, high-quality steel and the development of structured transport systems in northern England created a world-renowned industry

2002-02-28T00:00:00Z

1x08 The Iron Horse

1x08 The Iron Horse

  • 2002-02-28T00:00:00Z30m

Mark Williams learns how frantic competition among Welsh rivals drove the development and installation of the world's first steam locomotive

2002-03-04T00:00:00Z

1x09 Highland Flop

1x09 Highland Flop

  • 2002-03-04T00:00:00Z30m

More powerful steam engines solve a variety of problems during the Industrial Revolution.

Season Finale

2002-03-11T00:00:00Z

1x10 Power Crazy

Season Finale

1x10 Power Crazy

  • 2002-03-11T00:00:00Z30m

Why steam engines were developed during the Industrial Revolution to solve a range of engineering and social problems

Season Premiere

2005-01-10T00:00:00Z

2x01 Bread and Beer

Season Premiere

2x01 Bread and Beer

  • 2005-01-10T00:00:00Z30m

Comedian Mark Williams explains how 19th-century Britons drank beer as a healthy alternative to water because the fermentation process killed many harmful bacteria

2005-01-17T00:00:00Z

2x02 What to Wear?

2x02 What to Wear?

  • 2005-01-17T00:00:00Z30m

Mark Williams discovers how 19th-century hats were made of rabbit fur that had been shrunk in urine

2005-01-24T00:00:00Z

2x03 Gas on Wheels

2x03 Gas on Wheels

  • 2005-01-24T00:00:00Z30m

The use of gas to power the machines and inventions from the Industrial Revolution are explained by Mark Williams

2005-01-31T00:00:00Z

2x04 Print and Paper

2x04 Print and Paper

  • 2005-01-31T00:00:00Z30m

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

2005-02-07T00:00:00Z

2x05 Under Pressure

2x05 Under Pressure

  • 2005-02-07T00:00:00Z30m

Mark Williams visits a pub cellar and bridges across the Tyne, all powered by hydraulics, revealing how the beer pump started a power revolution

2005-02-14T00:00:00Z

2x06 Building a Revolution

2x06 Building a Revolution

  • 2005-02-14T00:00:00Z30m

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.

2005-02-21T00:00:00Z

2x07 Bright Sparks

2x07 Bright Sparks

  • 2005-02-21T00:00:00Z30m

How the electricity industry was created from scientific experimentation and entrepreneurial enthusiasm - becoming the world's main power source.

2005-02-28T00:00:00Z

2x08 Heavy Metals

2x08 Heavy Metals

  • 2005-02-28T00:00:00Z30m

The development of the Cornish mining industry, from pebble-picking in streams to the building of a honeycomb of mines below the sea

2005-03-07T00:00:00Z

2x09 Cutting it Fine

2x09 Cutting it Fine

  • 2005-03-07T00:00:00Z30m

How silk was instrumental in the invention of the binary code, which went on to inspire the computer revolution.

Season Finale

2005-03-14T00:00:00Z

2x10 Machine Tools

Season Finale

2x10 Machine Tools

  • 2005-03-14T00:00:00Z30m

Mark Williams learns about Joseph Whitworth, the man who standardised the threaded screw. Plus, the total cost of wood required to build HMS Victory

Season Premiere

2005-05-31T23:00:00Z

3x01 Reaping the Whirlwind

Season Premiere

3x01 Reaping the Whirlwind

  • 2005-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

2005-05-31T23:00:00Z

3x02 The Canal King

3x02 The Canal King

  • 2005-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

2005-05-31T23:00:00Z

3x03 Hot Metal

3x03 Hot Metal

  • 2005-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

2005-05-31T23:00:00Z

3x04 The Impossible Railway

3x04 The Impossible Railway

  • 2005-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

2005-05-31T23:00:00Z

3x05 Big Bang

3x05 Big Bang

  • 2005-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

2005-05-31T23:00:00Z

3x06 Generation Electric

3x06 Generation Electric

  • 2005-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

2005-05-31T23:00:00Z

3x07 Industrial Espionage

3x07 Industrial Espionage

  • 2005-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

2005-05-31T23:00:00Z

3x08 Steam on the Water

3x08 Steam on the Water

  • 2005-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

2005-05-31T23:00:00Z

3x09 Iron Men of Sweden

3x09 Iron Men of Sweden

  • 2005-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

Season Finale

2005-05-31T23:00:00Z

3x10 King Silk

Season Finale

3x10 King Silk

  • 2005-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

Season Premiere

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x01 Bread, Beer and Salt

Season Premiere

4x01 Bread, Beer and Salt

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

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?

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x02 Building Europe

4x02 Building Europe

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

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?

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x03 The City

4x03 The City

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

Cities were traditionally developed around water until the railway age expanded their boundaries. As the population grew, how did they cope?

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x04 Cotton, Linen and Rope

4x04 Cotton, Linen and Rope

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

For centuries craftsmen and women turned natural fibres into clothes. Ronald Topp explores what happened when machines began to replace manual labour.

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x05 Eiffel's Tower

4x05 Eiffel's Tower

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

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?

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x06 Exploding Engines

4x06 Exploding Engines

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

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.

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x07 High Fliers

4x07 High Fliers

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

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.

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x08 Perfect Porcelain

4x08 Perfect Porcelain

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

Ronald Topp investigates the new techniques and ways of working that turned local potteries into an international industry.

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x09 Steaming up the Alps

4x09 Steaming up the Alps

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

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.

Season Finale

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x10 Swedish Waterways

Season Finale

4x10 Swedish Waterways

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

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.

Season Premiere

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

5x01 Buildings

Season Premiere

5x01 Buildings

  • 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

5x02 Planes

5x02 Planes

  • 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

5x03 Bridges

5x03 Bridges

  • 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

5x04 Vehicles

5x04 Vehicles

  • 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

5x05 Ships

5x05 Ships

  • 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

Season Finale

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

5x06 Transport Networks

Season Finale

5x06 Transport Networks

  • 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

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