TED-Ed
TED-ED: How the world's first subway system was built - Christian Wolmar
It was the dawn of 1863, and London's not-yet-opened subway system - the first of its kind in the world - had the city in an uproar. Most people thought the project, which cost more than 100 million dollars in today's money, would never...
Curated Video
The Thrilling History and Physics of Roller Coasters
This video explores the fascinating history and thrilling evolution of roller coasters. From their humble beginnings on mining tracks to the mind-blowing heights and speeds of modern coasters, viewers will discover the exhilaration and...
Curated Video
Butler's Tourism Model
Butler's Tourism Model can be applied to any tourist resort to show six key stages of development. Discover how Blackpool, in the UK, has progressed over the past few hundred years. And how it may be entering a new seventh phase. Human...
Curated Video
Theodore Levitt: Globalization of Marketing
Theodore Levitt's 1960 Harvard Business Review article, Marketing Myopia, is a landmark of the discipline. But Levitt is best known for the word Globalization. Rumors that he coined it are wrong, but he certainly gave it prominence in...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Banality and Necessity of Bubbles | #5 | Venture Capital in the 21st Century
Financial speculation and bubbles are often of vital importance in fueling technological progress. Janeway reviews and distinguishes between various kinds of speculative bubbles over the past two centuries. While many have been...
Amor Sciendi
Rain, Steam and Speed: the Mechanized Conquest of England
JMW Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed illustrates the complexity of cultural change.
Next Animation Studio
South and North Korea to conduct joint survey on railway
North and South Korea will conduct a joint survey of North Korean railway lines to eventually link the two countries' railway systems.
Curated Video
Industrial Revolutionary | The Life & Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Why did Isambard Brunel name his ship after Great Britain? Because Kingdom was his middle name! I forgot to work that one into the script but couldn't let it go to waste. Beyond having a mouthful of a name, Isambard just seems to enhance...
Next Animation Studio
South Korea plans railway linking Korean Peninsula to Russia
Following the successful inter Korean summit, South Korea is now planning to build an extensive network that will connect the Korean Peninsula to Russia via rail.
Financial Times
Why did the UK sell off the railways?
Miranda Green tracks down the politicians who privatised Britain's railways, and speaks to key supporters of Jeremy Corbyn's plan for re-nationalisation.
Curated Video
How Indistrialization Changed Christmas
Victorian Christmas part 2 The expansion of the railway system across the British Isles and the introduction of Bank holidays made it easier, cheaper, and quicker to travel to see friends and relatives during Christmas. Mass production...
Curated Video
CSS Typography Tutorial
In this CSS typography tutorial, Mark reviews how to select fonts-- both web safe and fonts from Google fonts. Mark also reviews the primary CSS properties used to style type on the web. Accessibility recommendations are made to ensure...
Curated Video
Modern HTML and CSS from the Beginning (Including Sass) - Form Style Solution
CSS Basics: Form Style Solution This clip is from the chapter "CSS Basics" of the series "Modern HTML and CSS from the Beginning (Including Sass)".In this Section, we’ll learn about CSS Basics.
Curated Video
Wanted: The Infamous Reno Gang
Over a two-year period in the 1860s, infamous train robbers the Reno Gang stole the equivalent of $9 million dollars, until an act of vigilantism stopped them in their tracks.
Barcroft Media
Cheeky Elephant Crosses Railway Track: SNAPPED IN THE WILD
A cheeky elephant crosses a railway track in Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary. The tuskless male elephant - called a Makhna - used its trunk to push up the crossing barrier, then ambled his way across the tracks before crushing the second...
Higgsino Physics
Why you can hear a train on the railway tracks from miles away
Is it possible to hear a train coming by putting an ear to the rail track? Physics of why you can detect a train in the railway tracks from miles away.Sound is actually just a pressure wave a disturbance that's kind pushing to its...
Next Animation Studio
New high-speed Trans-Siberian railway: Moscow to Beijing in just 48 hours
Russia is reported to be building a new high-speed rail line that would take just 48 hours to travel from Moscow to Beijing, replacing the iconic Trans-siberian railway, according to reports cited by the International Business Times....
Press Association
Andy Burnham gives speech outside the Museum of Science and Industry - full
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, responded to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's scrapping of the northern leg of HS2 to Manchester. Mr Burnham said the current plan does not solve the problem of bottlenecks and lack of capacity on...
Press Association
Archive footage of HS2 construction work as northern route is cancelled
Archive footage of HS2 construction work, as the Prime Minister scrapped the project's northern route. Shotlist: - Aerial view of Whitmore Heath in the West Midlands, where 70% of homes have been purchased for the HS2 project - Works on...
Press Association
Burnham tired of the Government 'palming off the north' as HS2 to Manchester is scrapped
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, responded to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's scrapping of the northern leg of HS2 to Manchester. Mr Burnham was speaking at the Museum of Science and Industry, on the site of the terminus of the...
Press Association
Sunak axes HS2 to Manchester because ‘facts have changed’ and costs doubled
Rishi Sunak axed the HS2 project from Birmingham to Manchester and promised to use the £36 billion of savings to fund hundreds of other transport schemes. The Prime Minister told his party’s conference, taking place in Manchester, the...
Press Association
Footage of HS2 work at Euston as Sunak confirms Euston connection will go ahead
Footage of construction work at the HS2 site of Euston, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirms the connection from Old Oak Common to Euston will go ahead.
Press Association
HS2: Drone footage shows construction work at Birmingham Curzon Street
Drone footage shows construction work at the Birmingham Curzon Street HS2 site as Sunak announces the scrapping of HS2 between Birmingham and Manchester.