The Industrial Revolution
The Great Courses has partnered with the Smithsonian to create educational experiences, such as this series on inventors and the revolutionary machines that changed the course of history.
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[Chantilly, Va.] :
Teaching Company,
2014.
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| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- Industrialization is good for you
- Why was Britain first?
- The agricultural revolution
- Cities and manufacturing traditions
- The Royal Shipyards
- The textile industry
- Coal mining: powering the revolution
- Iron: coking and puddling
- Wedgwood and the pottery business
- Building Britain's canals
- Steam technology and the first railways
- The railway revolution
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel: master engineer
- The machine-tool makers
- The worker's-eye view
- Poets, novelists, and factories
- How industry changed politics
- Dismal science: the economists
- American pioneers: Whitney and Lowell
- Steamboats and factories in America
- Why Europe started late
- Bismarck, De Lesseps, and Eiffel
- John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
- Andrew Carnegie and American Steel
- American industrial labor
- Anglo-American contrasts
- Electric shocks and surprises
- Mass-producing bicycles and cars
- Taking flight: the dream becomes reality
- Industrial warfare, 1914-1918
- Expansion and the Great Depression
- Mass production wins World War II
- The information revolution
- Asian Tigers: the new industrialized nations
- Environmental paradoxes
- The benign transformation.