The Day the Universe Changed
Season 1, Episode 6: Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
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Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by religious dissenters barred from all activities except trade. The invention of the steam engine, new forms of credit, surplus wealth, and opening markets laid the foundation for industrial society.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
Episode 2
In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason
Episode 3
Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
Episode 4
A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge
Episode 5
Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens
Episode 6
Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
Episode 7
What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
Episode 8
Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
Episode 9
Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised
Episode 10
Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality