Season 4
10 episodes · Jan 1, 2006
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- S4E1
Bread, Beer and Salt
Jan 1, 200630mWith 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?
- S4E2
Building Europe
Jan 1, 200630mHow 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?
- S4E3
The City
Jan 1, 200630mCities were traditionally developed around water until the railway age expanded their boundaries. As the population grew, how did they cope?
- S4E4
Cotton, Linen and Rope
Jan 1, 200630mFor centuries craftsmen and women turned natural fibres into clothes. Ronald Topp explores what happened when machines began to replace manual labour.
- S4E5
Eiffel's Tower
Jan 1, 200630mEiffel 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?
- S4E6
Exploding Engines
Jan 1, 200630mRonald 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.
- S4E7
High Fliers
Jan 1, 200630mFlight 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.
- S4E8
Perfect Porcelain
Jan 1, 200630mRonald Topp investigates the new techniques and ways of working that turned local potteries into an international industry.
- S4E9
Steaming up the Alps
Jan 1, 200630mRonald 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.
- S4E10
Swedish Waterways
Jan 1, 200630mWaterways 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.