Season 4

10 EPISODES • 2006

Season 4 of Industrial Revelations was released on January 1 and consists of 10 episodes.

Episodes

1: Bread, Beer and Salt

Jan 1, 2006

With industrialisation, there were more mouths in towns and cities to feed and fewer men left to work the land. So how did food production keep up?

2: Building Europe

Jan 1, 2006

How did the building trade keep up with the demand for materials during the expansion of the Industrial Revolution, and what do oranges have to do with it?

3: The City

Jan 1, 2006

Cities were traditionally developed around water until the railway age expanded their boundaries. As the population grew, how did they cope?

4: Cotton, Linen and Rope

Jan 1, 2006

For centuries craftsmen and women turned natural fibres into clothes. Ronald Topp explores what happened when machines began to replace manual labour.

5: Eiffel's Tower

Jan 1, 2006

Eiffel was the world's greatest exponent of the use of iron in construction, creating the his famous Tower in 1889. How did engineering in iron reach such heights?

6: Exploding Engines

Jan 1, 2006

Ronald Top examines the beginnings of motor cars. Benz and Daimler were early pioneers, but prior to that there were attempts at steam-powered road vehicles.

7: High Fliers

Jan 1, 2006

Flight has always been humanity's dream. Ronald Top discovers that thanks to some paper thrown onto a fire, a duck, a cock and a sheep, it was made possible.

8: Perfect Porcelain

Jan 1, 2006

Ronald Topp investigates the new techniques and ways of working that turned local potteries into an international industry.

9: Steaming up the Alps

Jan 1, 2006

Ronald Top examines how railways conquered the mountains, with a little help from George Stevenson. He's in the Alps to see how funicular railways work.

10: Swedish Waterways

Jan 1, 2006

Waterways are flourishing in Europe, but how is it that a system designed for 17th-century trade is still viable in the 21st? Ronald Topp finds out.

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