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Welcome to IT'S HISTORY! We are kicking off this new history channel by taking you on a journey through the Industrial Revolution. In our first episode about INVENTIONS, Brad Explains everything about the history of the light bulb - it was a long way from the discovery of fire till the first electrical lightning. Learn who else, besides Thomas Alva Edison and Nikola Tesla helped form the technology that illuminates our nights to this day!
Adam Smith was one of the first men who explored economic connections in England and made clear, in a time when Mercantilism reigned, that the demands of the market should determine the economy and not the state. In his books Smith was a strong advocator of the free market economy. Today we give you the biography of the man behind the classic economic liberalism and how his ideas would change the world forever.
The Industrial Revolution transformed and shaped our modern world as we know it. Why did the fundamental changes of the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain? In our first episode about the era of Industrial Revolution, Brett explains how the agricultural revolution, a few inventions in the textile industry, the steam machine, improving means of transport and an overall changing society created a solid basis for the coming changes of the late 18th century.
The desire to record the human voice can be traced back to the 10th century. Thomas Edison is the first man who finally crafted the phonograph, a machine that can record sound. A few more GREAT MINDS are necessary to improve the technology until the first record made of shellac is produced. Emile Berliner, the inventor of the gramophone, is the reason why record lovers still listen to vinyl LPs to this day! This is the first part of our small series about the invention of sound recording.
Nowadays, Jane Austen is one of the world's most well known female authors. Just about everybody has heard of her books like Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility. But when her books were published for the first time, her name was not on the cover. In fact they were published bearing the anonymous pseudonym „By a Lady“. Her observations of the upper class english society at the end of the 18th century and her literary conception of emancipation and romantic love were not welcome everywhere. Still, she inspired a generation of young women, to question the world they live in. Even though, her books were already on the verge of becoming contemporary classics, to this day, Jane Austen's stories remain present in popular culture, not least because of many film adaptations.
The invention of the steam machine and innovations related to it in the textile industry really got the Industrial Revolution going. First they changed the way people work in their field and then they changed the organization of labour itself. How did the invention of the steam engine improve the factory system and what exactly did James Watt have to do with it all?
Even though the invention of the record made conservation of sound and music possible, neither the devices nor the records enabled the listener to move around freely. So many scientists started working on magnetic recordings, which on the long term should increase mobility. Which inventor came up with the audio cassette? And when did re-recording a mixtape for your sweetheart become possible? In our second episode about the history of sound recording, Brett tells you everything about the Walkman and its history.
Not too long ago, you needed to carry around fairly big and heavy devices, like the walkman or the discman to listen to music on the go - not to mention the CDs and cassettes themselves. Thanks to the MP3 we live in a world where sound recordings and music only need virtual space. In our last video on the history of sound, Bretts tells you the story of the Compact Disc and how we got to digital sound data like MP3s.
he invention of the steam machine changed the world. Many smart engineers worked on perfecting the efficiency of this groundbreaking technology. But who turned the simple principle of a steam engine into the speedy steel locomotives, frequenting thousands of kilometers of railroads and connecting the world during the Industrial Revolution? Soon steam boats and trains accelerated the world and furthered the ever prospering new world. To this day railways dominate many landscapes and trains connect millions of places.
Karl Marx is considered one of the most important philosophical scholars of all times. The changes the industrial revolution brought to society raised many social questions. In a world of growing capitalism, the German philosopher raised the topic of equality. Considered one of the most important philosophers of his time, his economic analysis for the wealth of workers were read everywhere. His best known book, Capital: Critique of Political Economy (Das Kapital), criticizing the current economical system, would become a bible for communists around the world. Besides some positive changes in thinking, a lot of misery was committed in his name, taking the idea of socialism to a new level.
It certainly is no big deal to have a small cruise along the canals or ride a train. But what is essential infrastructure today had to be invented out of necessity in the late 18th and early 19th century. In our new episode Brett tells you everything about canals and railways and how they changed the way we transport things.
The history of Immunology could started as early as 2000 years ago in China. But it took hundreds of years for Immune-Medicine to be researched properly in Europe. Epidemics like the Black Death usually had it pretty easy in human history: A lack of understanding and missing hygiene were an ideal breeding ground. That changed fundamentally during groundbreaking discoveries in the 19th century. Robert Koch and his students’ paved the way for modern medicine and vaccination research.
Florence Nightingale saw the catastrophic conditions of the Crimean War first hand. She worked day and night as a nurse to improve the hygienic situation of the wounded and became a legend. Her observations and actions lead to a revolution of care taking and the birth of modern nursing and the English health system.
After the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain, it soon arrived in continental Europe and in the US. Brett explains how the rest of the modern western world profited from new inventions like and innovations like the steam machine and railway transport and how the different countries reacted to the new challenges.
Each country claims that their inventors came up with the idea of the telephone. A world without it is hardly imaginable, so, who could blame them. But who really invented the telephone? Brett tells you about the history of the Invention of the telephone here on IT'S HISTORY.
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the last big explorers and polymath. Living in the time of the Industrial Revolution, Humboldt adapted the idea of romanticism, believing, that gathering knowledge on science will never be exhausted. He published his studies of the animal- and plant-kingdom and unique understanding of nature public in the book Cosmos, a corpus of his most important findings.
The Industrial Revolution did not simply change the way we work and how it is organized, it also had a profound impact on the situation of workers in Europe. Catastrophic living conditions in the ever growing cities lead to protests and strikes that ultimately led to the modern work life we know today. Brett tells you everything about the history of workers rights.
The desire to capture life in images is as old as humanity itself. But only with new chemical processes and inventions did it become possible to take the first photos during the Industrial Revolution. Brett tells you everything about Photography and capturing moments here on IT'S HISTORY.
Susan B. Anthony fought for the equality of men and women and equal rights during her lifetime. With her revolutionary view on emancipation and her work for feminism she still influences our modern society to this day. Brett tells you the story of a great suffragette and abolitionist right here at IT'S HISTORY.
The Industrial Revolution did not just change the way we work but our very social fabric. So, it is only natural that arts and culture underwent a fundamental change as well. Romanticism, Realism and the road to modernity with Expressionism and Impressionism were new thoughts of art never seen before. Find out more with Brett on IT'S HISTORY.
A world without cars is beyond our imagination. Our infrastructure and our whole life is based around the automobile. And that even though the first car was only built a little more than a 100 years. Brett tells you everything about the invention of the car at IT'S HISTORY.
Charles Darwin's theories on evolution and the origin of species changed Science forever and laid ground for our modern understanding of evolution. But how did Darwin come to his conclusions? This episode shines a light on the biography of the man who enlightened us about „The Origin of Species".
At the end of the 19th century, the inventions of the Industrial Revolution create a whole set of new industrial branches. The second wave of the Industrial Revolution is characterized by the chemical industry in Germany and mass production in modern factories in the US.
Queen Victoria was the longest reigning British monarch and defined her era like no other King or Queen before her. But what made the Victorian Era so special? What benefits did the Monarch bring to the quickly changing modern world of the Industrial Revolution? Find out with Brett on IT'S HISTORY.
