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Seven Wonders of the Industrial World Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

7 Episodes 2003 - 2003

Episode 1

The Great Ship

49 mins

Isambard Kingdom Brunel set out to build the largest ship ever constructed. Would it prove to be the engineer's finest hour, or his ultimate undoing?

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Episode 2

The Brooklyn Bridge

49 mins

Without the contributions of John Roebling, his son and his son's wife, one of the world's most heavily traveled bridges might never have existed.

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Episode 3

The Bell Rock Lighthouse

48 mins

In 1800 Robert Stevenson set about building a lighthouse on the deadly Bell Rock reef.

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Episode 4

Transcontinental Railway

How four Sacramento shopkeepers bring President Lincoln's dream of a railway from the Pacific to the Atlantic a reality.

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Episode 5

The Sewer King

48 mins

As Victorian London's sewage problem reached crisis, Joseph Bazalgette had a solution.

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Episode 6

The Panama Canal

49 mins

French engineer Ferdinand De Lesseps has a plan to build a canal across Panama.

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Episode 7

The Hoover Dam

49 mins

Over one hundred people died during the building of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.

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