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What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us

What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us (2003)

Documentary | UK

Director: Simon Baker, Jonathan Hassid, Billie Pink, Billie Park

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Rating: 7.4/10

The Industrial Revolution ushered in the middle class and our homes irrevocably changed. Dan Cruickshank shows us how domestic life as we know it today was born and includes William Murdoch’s experiments with gas lighting and Josiah Wedgewood’s ingenious designs.

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