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Evolving transportation systems
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Preindustrial society managed with toll roads, but industrialization required low-cost, efficient transportation systems. This program examines developments in road building and the revolutionary i...
Preindustrial society managed with toll roads, but industrialization required low-cost, efficient transportation systems. This program examines developments in road building and the revolutionary impact of canals, and charts the rise and subsequent decline of canals as a good example of social and technological change.
Details
- Creator
- HTV West (Firm)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2006], c1990
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (20 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780736550659
- OCLC
- ocn707964769
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on Oct. 28, 2006.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Transportation Efficiency (1:30) -- Toll Roads Impede Development (2:16) -- Transportation Along Waterways (2:52) -- Canal Designs (3:51) -- Canal Transport Systems (2:56) -- Competition from Railways (1:29) -- Development of Britain's Canals (3:21)