The Industrial Revolution
Reconsidered
A series of six programmes by Asa Briggs
Professor of Modern History in the University of Leeds
4-Transport and the Widening Market
Professor Briggs discusses with Jack Simmons , Professor of History in the University College of Leicester, the part that transport played in the Industrial Revolution. Where did the money come from for the development of a transport system-and, indeed, for other large-scale development? What were the social effects of easier, better, communications?