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What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us: War Machine - XA007/05VDan Cruickshank discovers how the Industrial Revolution created modern warfare. He looks at some of our most important inventions – from the humble tin can to the steam engine and space travel. In the process he tells the story of:
- The Turtle, the first submarine used in conflict
- The interchangeable Baker rifle
- Congreve’s rockets; the first self-propelled rockets ever used by the British
- The humble pulley-block, without which the British navy couldn’t have set sail and which gave us the pioneering methods of mass production.
Publication Year: 2003
Length: 30mins
ISBN: 9780749246969