Industrial Revelations (2002)
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.
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Episode 1 - Bread and Beer
Release Date: 2005-01-10Comedian Mark Williams explains how 19th-century Britons drank beer as a healthy alternative to water because the fermentation process killed many harmful bacteria
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Episode 2 - What to Wear?
Release Date: 2005-01-17Mark Williams discovers how 19th-century hats were made of rabbit fur that had been shrunk in urine
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Episode 3 - Gas on Wheels
Release Date: 2005-01-24The use of gas to power the machines and inventions from the Industrial Revolution are explained by Mark Williams
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Episode 4 - Print and Paper
Release Date: 2005-01-31In 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
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Episode 5 - Under Pressure
Release Date: 2005-02-07Mark Williams visits a pub cellar and bridges across the Tyne, all powered by hydraulics, revealing how the beer pump started a power revolution
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Episode 6 - Building a Revolution
Release Date: 2005-02-14Documentary exploring how the massive construction boom triggered by the Industrial Revolution forced the building industry to find new materials to cope with increasing demand.
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Episode 7 - Bright Sparks
Release Date: 2005-02-21How the electricity industry was created from scientific experimentation and entrepreneurial enthusiasm - becoming the world's main power source.
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Episode 8 - Heavy Metals
Release Date: 2005-02-28The development of the Cornish mining industry, from pebble-picking in streams to the building of a honeycomb of mines below the sea
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Episode 9 - Cutting it Fine
Release Date: 2005-03-07How silk was instrumental in the invention of the binary code, which went on to inspire the computer revolution.
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Episode 10 - Machine Tools
Release Date: 2005-03-14Mark Williams learns about Joseph Whitworth, the man who standardised the threaded screw. Plus, the total cost of wood required to build HMS Victory