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The introduction of Britain's canal system. Plus, how coal transportation was crucial to the Industrial Revolution.

Boom Time

Mark Williams discovers how comfortable cotton fabrics became available to everyone with the introduction of water-powered textile mills

Pants for All

Mark Williams discovers how engineer James Brindley tunnelled through hills in a straight line, and details the emergence of Josiah Wedgwood's pottery business as a global industry

Clocking On

How the Leeds and Liverpool Canal turned two rival counties into hotbeds of activity, bringing wealth to mill owners during the Industrial Revolution

Pennine Passage

How Thomas Telford and the Darby family used iron to create new transport routes during the Industrial Revolution.

Working Iron

Mark Williams visits Birmingham to experience what life was like during the Industrial Revolution for those employed in the glassworks and jewellery trades

Coining It

How mass-produced, high-quality steel and the development of structured transport systems in northern England created a world-renowned industry

Cutting Edge

Mark Williams learns how frantic competition among Welsh rivals drove the development and installation of the world's first steam locomotive

The Iron Horse

More powerful steam engines solve a variety of problems during the Industrial Revolution.

Highland Flop

Why steam engines were developed during the Industrial Revolution to solve a range of engineering and social problems

Power Crazy

Comedian Mark Williams explains how 19th-century Britons drank beer as a healthy alternative to water because the fermentation process killed many harmful bacteria

Bread and Beer

Mark Williams discovers how 19th-century hats were made of rabbit fur that had been shrunk in urine

What to Wear?

The use of gas to power the machines and inventions from the Industrial Revolution are explained by Mark Williams

Gas on Wheels

In 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

Print and Paper

Mark Williams visits a pub cellar and bridges across the Tyne, all powered by hydraulics, revealing how the beer pump started a power revolution

Under Pressure

Documentary exploring how the massive construction boom triggered by the Industrial Revolution forced the building industry to find new materials to cope with increasing demand.

Building a Revolution

How the electricity industry was created from scientific experimentation and entrepreneurial enthusiasm - becoming the world's main power source.

Bright Sparks

The development of the Cornish mining industry, from pebble-picking in streams to the building of a honeycomb of mines below the sea

Heavy Metals

How silk was instrumental in the invention of the binary code, which went on to inspire the computer revolution.

Cutting it Fine

Mark Williams learns about Joseph Whitworth, the man who standardised the threaded screw. Plus, the total cost of wood required to build HMS Victory

Machine Tools

Reaping the Whirlwind

The Canal King

Hot Metal

The Impossible Railway

Big Bang

Generation Electric

Industrial Espionage

Steam on the Water

Iron Men of Sweden

King Silk

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?

Bread, Beer and Salt

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?

Building Europe

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

The City

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

Cotton, Linen and Rope

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?

Eiffel's Tower

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.

Exploding Engines

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.

High Fliers

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

Perfect Porcelain

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.

Steaming up the Alps

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.

Swedish Waterways

Buildings

Planes

Bridges

Vehicles

Ships

Transport Networks

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.

The Best Seasons of Industrial Revelations

The Best Seasons of Industrial Revelations

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5