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What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us: City Living - XA007/06VPrior to the Industrial Revolution, the day-to-day lives of ordinary Britons had remained unchanged for centuries. Homes were largely rural and functional, and the idea of decorative and comfortable surrounding along with home ‘entertainment’ was the reserve of a handful of the privileged nobility. The Industrial Revolution ushered in the middle class and our homes irrevocably changed. Dan Cruickshank shows us how domestic life as we know it today was born and includes:
- William Murdoch’s experiments with gas lighting
- Alessandro Volta’s electric battery
- Alexander Cummings' s-bend toilet
- Josiah Wedgewood’s ingenious designs and marketing nous
- Samuel Pratt’s spiral spring
- Williams Perkins' multitude of new colours when he accidentally discovered the dye mauvine.
Publication Year: 2003
Length: 30mins
ISBN: 9780749246976