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7 episodes in this season

The Great Ship

50 min

The Brooklyn Bridge

50 min

The Bell Rock Lighthouse

50 min

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The Sewer King

50 min

The Panama Canal

50 min

The Line

50 min

The Hoover Dam

50 min

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

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200350m6.7

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The Sewer King

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Sep 25, 2003

Set in London during the 1850s, this episode focuses on the construction of the London sewerage system, built to replace the antiquated medieval system that was overworked and inadequate for the needs of the-then largest metropolis in the world, causing epidemics of disease and a permanent foul stench to fill the air. The episode follows the efforts and work of Joseph Bazalgette, the brilliant engineer who designed the influential and modern sewer system that would purify the city, transform the streets above and would result in the end of the epidemics of cholera and typhoid that had ravaged the population - although not for the reasons that he initially thought.

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Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

TV Series

200350m6.7

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The Sewer King

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Sep 25, 2003

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