Rory McGrath's Industrial Revelations a.k.a. Rory McGrath's Best of British Engineering - Transport

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Title: Rory McGrath's Industrial Revelations a.k.a. Rory McGrath's Best of British Engineering - Transport Networks

Channel Transmitted: Discovery Civilisation

Date: 2006

Source: TVRip

Format: DivX

Category: Documentary / Educational



Series description

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Rory McGrath's Industrial Revelations

In this new six-part series, comedian and history buff Rory McGrath celebrates the UK’s most imaginative and ambitious construction endeavours past and present.

He visits a host of British marvels, from the splendour of the Palm House at Kew Garden to the former glamour of Concorde and Ironbridge, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.



Episode description

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Transport Networks

Britain has been the canvas for some of the oldest, most intricate and ambitious transport infrastructures in the world.

As Britain grew its formidable industrial tradition, Francis Egerton and his team built and inspired a grand canal system that would bear the weight of trade in the way that a horse and cart on basic roads simply couldn’t manage.

But it wasn’t just goods that needed to be moved about. Today London’s Underground carries people on over 2.5m journeys a day on a network that was being put together 150 years ago. Meanwhile Brunel’s Great Western Railway remains in good health between London and Bristol.

Modern times have seen some astonishing feats in the building of road infrastructure. 100 years ago few could realistically have envisaged the Channel Tunnel (although some did). Yet annually seven million people journey through it.

And talking of ambitious, Heathrow Airport’s Terminal Five will soon make it host to 90m people a year...



http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/machines_and_engineering/industrialrevelations/trans_networks/index.shtml



Directed and Produced by Jon Stephens



Produced by WAG TV (UK)

(C) 2006 Discovery Content UK Ltd.





A/V Info:

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Size: 720 MB (737,760 KB / 755,467,098 bytes)

Running Time: 0:45:48.720

Format: Avi, 450 x 400

Aspect Ratio: 1.125 (9:8)

Video Codec: DivX (DivX 4 OpenDivX)

Video Info: Frames/s 25.000, 2057 kbps

Audio: English

Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 CBR

Audio Info: 48000Hz 128 kb/s, Joint Stereo



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Ripped originally as .flv file, converted as .avi



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