TV for Blokes (and interested women)

[Trickydicky]

Bored over the Christmas Holidays, fed up of food and booze?, don`t want to go shopping?, too cold in the garage?
Here is something to keep you from under the feet of the wife.
A few of you may have already seen this TV program Called Industrial Revelations, but for those that havent below is a program first shown on Discovery and repeated on channels such as Quest about how the Industrial Revolution shaped our world.
Presented by the Fast Shows Mark Williams he leads you through a interesting voyage of the different stages of the Industrial Revolution.
Each episode is around 30 mins long and is availble on You Tube.

Also for those with an interest in railways there is a series called, Mark Williams On The Rails. This program details the rise of the railways.

Each episode is availble on YouTube and can be downloaded if you wish, using a program called Keepvid, availble at http://www.keepvid.com. Save the videos as Mp4 files. Right Click on the Mp4 file and select "save target as" in the location you require (desktop,my documents etc) you can then watch at your lesuire.

Series Listings

Series 1 - 2002 - Industrial Revelations
1. Boom Time: Coal, canals and steam, an explosive combination.
2. Pants for All: The industrial transformation on the cotton industry.
3. Clocking On
4. Pennine Passage
5. Working Iron
6. Coining It: A look into a few of the Thousand Trades of Birmingham
7. Cutting Edge: Steel and cutlery in Sheffield
8. The Iron Horse
9. Highland Flop
10. Power Crazy

Series 2 - 2005 - More Industrial Revelations
1. Bread and Beer
2. What to Wear?
3. Gas on Wheels
4. Print and Paper
5. Under Pressure
6. Building a Revolution
7. Bright Sparks
8. Heavy Metal
9. Cutting it fine
10. Machine Tools

Mark Williams On The Rails

Cornish Steam Giant
Rocket Men
Brunel
Moving Mountains
Carriage Kings
Death on the Tracks
Big Country
Speed and Power
Going Underground
Out of Steam

Enjoy!!

[bmcecosse]

I've seen some of Mark's vids = thanks for the tips!

[irmscher]

Some good videos there thanks for posting

[Trickydicky]

If you enjoyed watching the above, here is a documentary on how Rolls Royce designed and built the Trent jet engine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfomloUg2Gw