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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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