The Industrial Revolutions
Summary: The story of how a primate species created a world full of skyscrapers, airplanes, nuclear weapons, and vaccines. From the mass production of cotton weaving in the first industrial revolution of the 18th Century, to the digital revolution of today, this podcast will explore the ways our world has rapidly changed.
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- Artist: Dave Broker
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Podcasts:
How France, the UK, and US abolished the slave trade in the early 19th Century.
As chemistry advanced in the 18th Century, it was applied to perhaps the all-time greatest dream of humankind: Learning how to fly.
How a shadowy network of militant 20-somethings, led by a man who probably never existed, went to war with machines and their owners in the early 19th Century.
The story of London's first industrial factory and how its destruction led to England's unofficial national anthem.
How the first Industrial Revolution spread to pockets of France, the Low Countries, Germany, and Eastern Europe.
How the French chaos transformed the political, religious, and economic orders of Continental Europe.
Get caught up on French history before we get into the French Revolution and Napoleon next week!
Alexander Hamilton tried to bring the Industrial Revolution to America and Thomas Jefferson tried to stop him. Let's discuss why.
In this episode, we explore the underlying intellectual reasons for the American Revolution, and how that Revolution reshaped those ideas into a philosophy that would take over the world as industrialization spread.
A survey of religious controversies and developments of the late 18th Century.
In the mid-1700s, a revival of nonconformist churches swept over the English world - and it had a profound impact on the coming Industrial Revolution.
The lives of three scientists who helped shape the industrialized world: Antoine Lavoisier, Edward Jenner, and Humphrey Davy.
Dave responds to your questions about factory labor, environmentalism, patents, the universal basic income, the role of mothers, and himself.
Starting in the mid-18th Century, a few individuals took the chemistry lessons out of the laboratory and applied them to industry. These are their stories.
The mechanical engineers who gave us standardized tools and the powerful industrial machines of the future.
