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Kenneth Hudson looks at the way in which history is viewed. 5: The Palace of Modern Magician
William Armstrong 's parents intended that their son should become a lawyer, but the boy's heart was not in the law. For him mechanics were a passion and physical science absorbed his hours of relaxation. When he died in 1900 he was as important as Brunei or the Stephensons and his great Elswick works on Tyneside employed over 20,000 people. With the fortune he made manufacturing the weapons of war he built
Cragside, the first house in Britain to be lit by electricity. Readers SEAN BARRETT , ALAN DUDLEY and MARTIN FRIEND
Producer JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol

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Kenneth Hudson
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William Armstrong
Readers:
Sean Barrett
Readers:
Alan Dudley
Producer:
John Knight.
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