Canals Engineering

[malagabob]

Caught episode 1of6 of Canals construction on Sky. Did a search but only episode 4of6 is coming up. Any info please TIA

[CrapAtCryptics]

Eps 2 & 3 are on demand if you have that - and Ep 4 is on moday 8pm on BBC4

[CrapAtCryptics]

Or even Monday :-)

[Peter Pedant]

it is a very good program and you are missing a lot
episode one has just been broadcast - the introducer is a gurl of course
and covered the northern canals and their construction
( Leeds Liverpool - Rochdale )

BUT there is another series just rebroadcast
and that was on what they did and what relevance does it have to us ?
That one had a LOT on canals and geology
that is you need the geology to go out and dig a canal and so someone did it... Strata Smith to be exact -and he was the one who used a loaf of buttered bread and put it on a slope as an analogy ( in 1790)
and I think we had a bit on Lyell and uniformitarianism - the same forces that formed the strata are with us now - which sounded the death knell of the creation of the world by God fiftyyears before Darwin. Lyell was a vicar by the way....

so yeah there are some good progz around

[CrapAtCryptics]

i think they are all on youtube as well

[Peter Pedant]

I hadnt realised that the ideas in geology ( and canal building ) 1800-1850 were such an important lead up to Darwiin

I kinda thought he sat on a heaving ship looking at a load of dead finches and said: " Oh, I know ... "