Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The Industrial Revolution brought significant advancements to Britain in the 18th and 19th

centuries, including chemical manufacturing, the steam engine, and machine tools, what

we would call power tools today.

As new industries rose, existing industries were also upgraded.

One of the most significant and the oldest was beer.

The actual method of brewing and storing beer hadn't changed much over the past few

hundred years, but as with any period of change, competition, bread, growth.

Literally, London brewery started building their own cisterns in bats larger and larger.

Capacity is quickly grew from 2400 barrels worth of beer all the way up to nearly 10 times

that amount, large enough for one craft brewery to actually host a dinner party for 100

guests inside a single empty vet.

Of course, revolutions don't just happen.

Your built up over long periods of trial and error, and when you're racing competitors

to build the largest beer vats in the city, errors are bound to crop up.

It was a Monday evening in October in 1814 when it happened.

A leak had sprung at the Henry Moe and Company brewery in central London.

Well, leak might be an understatement.

A vat holding 3500 barrels, or 135,000 liters of beer, burst wide open.

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