History of technology
The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques and is one of the categories of world history. Technology can refer to methods ranging from as simple as stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and information technology that has emerged since the 1980s.
4 episodes
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Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the far-reaching consequences of the Industrial Revolution, which brought widespread social and intellectual change to Britain.
30 December 2010
Featuring: Jane Humphries, Emma Griffin, Lawrence Goldman
The Industrial Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Industrial Revolution, a period of rapid technological development which brought widespread social and intellectual change to Britain.
23 December 2010
Featuring: Jeremy Black, Pat Hudson, William Ashworth
The Invention of Photography
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development and impact of photography in the 1830s, with heliographs, sun pictures, photogenic drawing, Daguerre and Fox Talbot.
7 July 2016
Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Elizabeth Edwards, Alison Morrison-Low
The Measurement of Time
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the measurement of time and the various methods used for doing so over millennia of human history.
29 March 2012
Featuring: Kristen Lippincott, Jim Bennett, Jonathan Betts