S1E4:The Birth of the Machines

22 Sep 201843 minTV-G

Michael Buerk investigates how the Victorians created what we know as mass manufacturing. With their advancements in technology, goods could be produced at a rate that had never been seen before. Michael discovers that these innovations were the result of one product: cotton. The industrial revolution sped up the boom in manufacturing, but there would be consequences for all this sudden growth.