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