What the Stuarts Did for Us - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Desygner Livinge
The trendiest new drink of the time - coffee - is sampled by Adam Hart-Davis as he begins his four-part journey through a period noted for grand design, as represented by the grand buildings of Christopher Wren.
The Applyance of Science
Adam Hart-Davis explains how the work of Francis Bacon made Britain a leading scientific nation, and led to its crowning glory-the steam engine.
The Organysed Isle
Adam Hart-Davis shows how the Stuarts introduced orderwith the first public transport, street lighting, fire brigade and high-street bank. But the greatest innovation was in politics: the unification of England and Scotland and the founding of the constitutional monarchy.
Newe Worldes
Adam Hart-Davis considers the invention of the microscope, diving bell and telescope, all of which gave a dramatic insight into previously hidden worlds, and inspired a new genre - science fiction
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