How Steam Power Remade the World
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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John Darwin joined me on the podcast to discuss how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order.
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| 0:32.4 | Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History日. We're talking about one of the most important |
| 0:38.0 | technological breakthroughs in the history of the world on this episode. We're talking to John |
| 0:42.8 | Darwin. He was a legend at Oxygen University when I was studying next, been a professor of |
| 0:47.9 | global history of Imperial history there for years and he's written many, many books on Britain and |
| 0:54.2 | Europe's empires of the 19th and 20th centuries. His latest book is about how steam power |
| 0:59.7 | remade the world and he describes me in this podcast how steam power transformed the world. I mean |
| 1:05.5 | harnessing the elemental forces of nature to produce almost unlimited power, absolute fascinating |
| 1:11.1 | stuff and he's very convincing on just how instrumental steam power was in that first great |
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| 1:52.7 | do, which is a lot at the moment not so exciting stuff going on. So enjoy this podcast, all of that steam power. |
| 2:05.2 | John, thank you very much for coming on the podcast. I was thinking the other day as I was |
| 2:08.9 | lifting boxes at the extraordinary revolution that steam power was. I mean, can you give me a sense |
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