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This series takes twelve inventions and explores how they have changed the way people live. They explain how these inventions came about, from sparks of genius to steady incremental improvements, and...
Behind-the-scenes look at Philip Trevelyan’s film about the eccentric Page family who live together in a ramshackle house in the Sussex countryside, without gas, electricity or running water. The director...
A series of 6 30-minute programmes in which the late Lancastrian steeplejack Fred Dibnah traces the development of industrialisation in Britain.
Dan Cruickshank looks at the development of transport during the Industrial Revolution, including the roadbuilding of John Loudon Macadam; James Brindley’s canal network; George Stephenson and the...
A compilation of two classic films on steam trains
A classic 1960 BBC Scotland documentary made by John Gray about life and workings on the West Highland Railway in the last days of steam.
Recording of the last working steam winding engine in Leicestershire. The Donisthorpe Colliery officially closed at 12 noon on Thursday 12 April 1990 - the day the recording wa made. Shows the steam engine...
Finely constructed working models are used to trace the development of steam power from Heron of Alexandria and Branca, via Newcomen and Trevithick to heavy industrial and marine engines.
A history of heat engine development from Hero of Alexandria to Rudolph Diesel. Includes archival film of old machinery in motion including steam engines (Crofton, Youngs Brewery at Wandsworth), ships, early...
Shows industrial developments that transformed the cottage industries of the 18th century into the power-driven factories of the 19th. Darby’s introduction of coke iron smelting mill leads to Huntsman’s...
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