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Smoke & Steel - Secrets of the Modern World

Smoke & Steel - Secrets of the Modern World (2022)

February. 14,2022

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Smoke & Steel - Secrets of the Modern World

Documentary series examining the Industrial revolution, the age of smoke and steel, a time when history's great engineers pioneered solutions that would forever change the way people live, think, and build.

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Smoke & Steel - Secrets of the Modern World

2022

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 2022

6 Episode

Episode 1 - A Leisure Time Game Changer

February. 14,2022

Examining a cliff in North Yorkshire that offered the public a new ride experience. Plus, the world's oldest operating roller-coaster, an astronomical observatory in California and a mining hoist in Germany.

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Episode 2 - War on the Waves

February. 21,2022

Examining 'The Warrior', an ironclad warship on the south coast of England. Plus, a grand public works facility in Prague and the mint building in San Francisco.

Episode 3 - A Subterranean Revolution

February. 28,2022

The industrial legacy of a tunnel under the Thames, how steam engines reshaped the Netherlands, and a surprising link to our digital world.

Episode 4 - The Birth of the Factory

March. 07,2022

A mill on the outskirts of Manchester was part of a dawning revolution in the way we work - the factory. A bridge in St. Louis, USA pioneered the use of steel - a construction material that would reshape our world. And a vast hangar in Brazil built to house the airships transformed passenger travel in the 20th century, but those giants of the sky owed a debt to an earlier age.

Episode 5 - Global Communications Breakthrough

March. 14,2022

Examining the legacy of a cable hut in Cornwall, how a mountain railway in New Hampshire inspired its passengers and a lighthouse in France.

Episode 6 - Scaling New Heights

March. 21,2022

Examining the legacy of the first iron framed building (a mill in Shrewsbury), how paper production changed the world, and the impact of the Trans-Siberian Railway.