What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
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- Episode
- War Machine
- Broadcast Info
- 2003 (29 mins)
- Description
- Series of 6 x 30 min programmes presented by Dan Cruickshank.
Dan Cruickshank discovers how the Industrial Revolution created modern warfare, as well as some of our most important inventions - from the humble tin can to the steam engine and space travel. In the process he tells the story of the Turtle, the first submarine used in conflict; the interchangeable Baker rifle; Congreve’s rockets; the first self-propelled rockets ever used by the British, and the humble pulley-block, without which the British navy couldn’t have set sail and which gave us the pioneering methods of mass production.
modern warfare tin can steam engine space travel Turtle submarine Baker rifle Congreve’s rockets self-propelled rockets pulley-block mass-production - Genre
- History; Design; Technology
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The Open University, "What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/6785 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)