Shini Somara
Self - Presenter
Smoke & Steel - Secrets of the Modern World (2022)
Season 1
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.
Released Feb. 14, 2022
Episode 52 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, History
Keywords: imdb.reference-to-the-industrial-revolution, imdb.technology, imdb.science, imdb.engineering, imdb.pioneer, imdb.progress, imdb.industrial-revolution
Production Companies: Like A Shot Entertainment
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - A Leisure Time Game Changer
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.
Feb. 14, 2022, midnight
S1E2 - War on the Waves
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.
Feb. 21, 2022, midnight
S1E3 - A Subterranean Revolution
The industrial legacy of a tunnel under the Thames, how steam engines reshaped the Netherlands, and a surprising link to our digital world.
Feb. 28, 2022, midnight
S1E4 - The Birth of the Factory
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.
March 7, 2022, midnight
S1E5 - Global Communications Breakthrough
Examining the legacy of a cable hut in Cornwall, how a mountain railway in New Hampshire inspired its passengers and a lighthouse in France.
March 14, 2022, midnight
S1E6 - Scaling New Heights
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.
March 21, 2022, midnight
Episode Runtime: 52 min.
Season Runtime: 312 min.
Released: Feb. 14, 2022
Last Air Date: March 21, 2022, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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