Industrial Revelations - Season 2
1 - Bread and Beer
Air Date: January 10, 2005
Comedian Mark Williams explains how 19th-century Britons drank beer as a healthy alternative to water because the fermentation process killed many harmful bacteria
2 - What to Wear?
Air Date: January 17, 2005
Mark Williams discovers how 19th-century hats were made of rabbit fur that had been shrunk in urine
3 - Gas on Wheels
Air Date: January 24, 2005
The use of gas to power the machines and inventions from the Industrial Revolution are explained by Mark Williams
4 - Print and Paper
Air Date: January 31, 2005
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
5 - Under Pressure
Air Date: February 7, 2005
Mark Williams visits a pub cellar and bridges across the Tyne, all powered by hydraulics, revealing how the beer pump started a power revolution
6 - Building a Revolution
Air Date: February 14, 2005
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.
7 - Bright Sparks
Air Date: February 21, 2005
How the electricity industry was created from scientific experimentation and entrepreneurial enthusiasm - becoming the world's main power source.
8 - Heavy Metals
Air Date: February 28, 2005
The development of the Cornish mining industry, from pebble-picking in streams to the building of a honeycomb of mines below the sea
9 - Cutting it Fine
Air Date: March 7, 2005
How silk was instrumental in the invention of the binary code, which went on to inspire the computer revolution.
10 - Machine Tools
Air Date: March 14, 2005
Mark Williams learns about Joseph Whitworth, the man who standardised the threaded screw. Plus, the total cost of wood required to build HMS Victory