Disc 1. Industrialization is good for you
Disc 2. The agricultural revolution
Cities and manufacturing traditions
Disc 3. The Royal Shipyards
Disc 4. Coal mining: powering the revolution
Iron: coking and puddling
Disc 5. Wedgwood and the pottery business
Building Britain's canals
Disc 6. Steam technology and the first railways
Disc 7. Isambard Kingdom Brunel: master engineer
Disc 8. The worker's-eye view
Poets, novelists, and factories
Disc 9. How industry changed politics
Dismal science: the economists
Disc 10: American pioneers: Whitney and Lowell
Steamboats and factories in America
Disc 11. Why Europe started late
Bismarck, De Lesseps, and Eiffel
Disc 12. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
Andrew Carnegie and American Steel
Disc 13. American industrial labor
Disc 14. Electric shocks and surprises
Mass-producing bicycles and cars
Disc 15. Taking flight: the dream becomes reality
Industrial warfare, 1914-1918
Disc 16. Expansion and the Great Depression
Mass production wins World War II
Disc 17. The information revolution
Asian Tigers: the new industrialized nations
Disc 18. Environmental paradoxes
The benign transformation.
