Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - The links between science and industrialization

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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Simon Schaffer explains the links between science and industrialization. He tells the history of the Royal Institution where he is standing and the research into agriculture and chemistry which was so important.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 16:14
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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