The Day the Universe Changed — Season 1, Episode 6: Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution

Episode synopsis

Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by religious dissenters barred from all activities except trade. The invention of the steam engine, new forms of credit, surplus wealth, and opening markets laid the foundation for industrial society.

About The Day the Universe Changed

Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
• E2In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason
• E3Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
• E4A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge
• E5Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens
• E7What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
• E8Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
• E9Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised
• E10Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality