More Industrial Revelations Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Bread and Beer

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

• Bright Sparks

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

• Building

  The history of building, chronicling how the industrial revolution sparked off an unprecedented increase in demand for construction materials

• Building a Revolution

  How the Industrial Revolution triggered a massive construction boom, forcing the building industry to find new materials to cope with increasing demand. Presented by Mark Williams

• The City

  How the railway age expanded the boundaries of British cities and changed the way in which they developed

• Cutting it Fine

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

• Fibres

  Ronald Topp explores the major impact that machines for weaving materials had on the work of clothes-makers

• Flight

  Ronald Topp explores the history of aviation, chronicling mankind's determination to be airborne, and how it was all made possible thanks to some paper thrown into a fire, a duck, a cock and a sheep

• Food

  Looking at how industrialisation affected food production when it brought more mouths to feed into the towns and cities and less men working the land in the rural areas

• Gas on Wheels

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

• Heavy Metal

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

• Internal Combustion

  Looking at how Benz and Daimler's pioneering development of the motor-car was preceded by much earlier attempts to created a steam-powered road vehicle

• Iron

  The use of Iron in engineering, paying particular attention to the construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1889 : a ground-breaking piece of architecture

• Machine Tools

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

• Print and Paper

  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

• Tourism

  Ronald examines the development of rail travel from an awkward necessity into a comfortable form of travel which encouraged mass tourism

• Under Pressure

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

• What to Wear

  Mark Williams reveals how 19th-century hats were made of rabbit fur finished and shrunk in urine