January 10, 2005 • 30m
Comedian Mark Williams explains how 19th-century Britons drank beer as a healthy alternative to water because the fermentation pro...Read more
January 17, 2005 • 30m
Mark Williams discovers how 19th-century hats were made of rabbit fur that had been shrunk in urine
January 24, 2005 • 30m
The use of gas to power the machines and inventions from the Industrial Revolution are explained by Mark Williams
January 31, 2005 • 30m
In a look at the history of printing, Mark Williams discovers why early typesetters arranged lower-case letters according to their...Read more
February 7, 2005 • 30m
Mark Williams visits a pub cellar and bridges across the Tyne, all powered by hydraulics, revealing how the beer pump started a power revolution
February 14, 2005 • 30m
Documentary exploring how the massive construction boom triggered by the Industrial Revolution forced the building industry to fin...Read more
February 21, 2005 • 30m
How the electricity industry was created from scientific experimentation and entrepreneurial enthusiasm - becoming the world's main power source.
February 28, 2005 • 30m
The development of the Cornish mining industry, from pebble-picking in streams to the building of a honeycomb of mines below the sea
March 7, 2005 • 30m
How silk was instrumental in the invention of the binary code, which went on to inspire the computer revolution.
March 14, 2005 • 30m
Mark Williams learns about Joseph Whitworth, the man who standardised the threaded screw. Plus, the total cost of wood required to build HMS Victory