The Past at Work
tv show
8 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired March 25, 1980
Genres:
Overview
The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and other industrial relics where the modern world was made -- not by statesmen and philosophers, but by men, women and children with dirt on their hands.
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To Make a Teacup
Season 1 - Episode 5 - 0h 25m
Air Date
April 22, 1980
Overview
Demand for fine white and decorated pottery led to a search for new raw materials, the development of new processes, and encouraged new transport systems. Anthony Burton looks at processes and bottle kilns at Stoke-on-Trent; visits a water-powered flint mill in Staffordshire; and tries his hand at shovelling china clay in Cornwall.