Explorations: Wheeling and Dealing: The revolutionary importance of coal
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Background to Channel 4 'The Day the World Took Off', shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Alan Macfarlane discusses the coal revolution, the change from energy harvested from the sun through plants and animals, to the stored carbon energy of millions of years of sunlight. Filmed on a coal heap in Coalbrookdale, where the industrial revolution in England began. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-08 17:07 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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