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what the industrial revolution did for us

Medical changes in the Industrial Revolution video clip

An extract from a BBC documentary “What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us” presented by Dan Cruickshank. This clip explores the changes in medicine that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.

How did the longbow help Edward III win the Battle of Crécy in the Hundred Years War?

On the 26th August 1346, one of the most decisive battles in the Hundred Years War was won by the army of the English king Edward III.

Weimar-era cartoon predicts ‘wireless home phone & TV’

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Second Battle of Ypres

First large-scale gas attack at the Second Battle of Ypres, 1915

A description of the first large-scale use of poison gas in WW1 that marked the start of the Second Battle of Ypres.