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Free online courses/YouTube series on the technologies of the Industrial Revolution? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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The most in-depth video I was able to find regarding the invention of the steam engine spends 15 minutes on the topic. I can safely say that steam, iron, coal and pistons are involved, but I never learned what a piston is (I know they exist and are in engines) in school, so I can't grok the engine as a whole because of the circular definitions.

I'm sure I could read all about it, but this is something I need to see in action for it to click. And I'm finding myself getting more curious about the tech changes of the Industrial Revolution overall, given the rate of change under way, to better understand the social upheaval.

My middle school American history course essentially spent days on how the cotton gin was fast (but not how it worked), endless sections about textiles, and then interstate railroads sprang from nothing. That's feeling a bit sparse as a representation of the time.

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[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know of a series covering Industrial Revolution technologies. But the videos below should giv you a good conceptual understanding of steam engines:

Unrelated to steam engines or the industrial revolution, Bill Hammack's play lists are great deep dives in topics from an engineer's perspective. Be sure to sort his videos by "popular" there are a number that are over 10 years old but are still amazing short explorations of things like the aluminum can (over 18 Million views).