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Narrator: You dream of freedom
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Strive for progress
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Old world swept away
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Now a potential unbound
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New Horizons and new dangers
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That propel us towards the lives we live today
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Amidst the chaos of a unforgiving planet
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Most species will fail
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But for one all the pieces will fall into place
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And a set of keys will unlock a path for Mankind to triumph
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This is our story. The story of all of us
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Narrator: October 1781
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The back woods of Pennsylvania
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Alone rider with a document that will change the world
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The day before Yorktown Virgina
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Rebelled troops rub the British Army
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Taking seven thousand prisoner's, the end of a six year struggle
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Rag tag Revolutionary forces defeat the greatest military power on the planet
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Williams: They'd had beaten the man, They had beaten the British Empire
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Um it was the original grassroots campaign
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Men,Women,from back yards to front yards to city streets
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we had been born out of Revolution
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Machowicz: There is no doubt that the seed of that victory
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was inspired by the though of individual freedom and personal liberty
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Those ideas drove the men forward
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Narrator: Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman
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Hand picked by George Washington for a critical mission
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To deliver news of the British Surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia
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The Beginning of the the end of Britain's colonial rule in North America
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A new kind of nation is born
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Government for the people by the people, Democracy
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An ideal that will shape the future of mankind
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Brand: When they American Revolution succeeded
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it put abroad the idea that people didn't have to except the governments
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the political regime that they were born into
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They could take matters into their own hands
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Wunderlich: You should be in charge of your destiny. You should be the one to determine who you are and who you will become
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That's what the America Revolution really means when it spreads beyond our own borders
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Narrator: Revolution erupts in France
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Greece,Poland,Belgium, drive out Imperial Rulers
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In Hatti former slaves cast off their chains
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In Bolivia,Columbia, and Peru, rebels over throw the Spanish Empire
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At the very same time another Revolution is in the making
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Which will change the lives of every human being on the planet
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The Industrial Revolution
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For a 100 thousand years mankind has made tools to overcome the limits of the human body
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And extend our control over the natural world
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But they rely on muscle power
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Now mankind develops a tool with potentially unlimited power
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The key to the modern world,The machine
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Russell: This is a Revolutionary transformation that changed the way people lived
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Meigs: Today we live in a world that is so full of products
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it's hard for us to imaging what life was like before there machines
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Narrator: The North of England 1768, Richard Arkwright
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Self taught, ambitious a natural entrepreneur
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Russell: The root of civilization is the driving motivation
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of certain people at certain times, to create something new
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Something drives certain people
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It's not in most of us
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Narrator: Arkwright's goal is to create the machine to stretch and spin cotton perfectly
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John K, clockmaker brings the skills of the precision engineer
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The two men work at night and in secret
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Neighbors suspect they are practicing witch craft
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[whispering]
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Narrator: But the devise there making will give birth
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to the age of industry
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and the consumer society
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Meigs: Now you begin to get a whole group of people who can afford
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to get products that once upon a time were really only available to the wealthy
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Russell: We can now enjoy things that we could never have before
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We can eat things wear things play with things
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We can produce so much more stuff
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and almost all the stuff is what people actually want
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Narrator: Arkwright's machine turns raw cotton into thread
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more efficiently than any human being
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He becomes the worlds first industrial tycoon
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And creates a new kind of work place
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The factory
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Narrator: Giant water powered factories rise across the county side
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Cotton production in England sky rockets in 20 years
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From 227 thousand pounds spun by hand to 7.2 million pounds spun by machine
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Russell: The invention of the factory industrial capitalism were
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the most revolutionary transformation's in the history of civilization
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Narrator: By 1850 England has four thousand factories
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[sounds of cotton machines]
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Narrator: Factories build our world
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all made possible by a natural resource millions of years in the making
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Lock in strata deep underground
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Coal ancient rain forest compacted into peat and compressed
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Buried for 300 million years the suns energy trapped in every piece
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Frauenfelder: Coal is this magical stuff it just looks like a black hunk of greasy dirt
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But there is so much energy embedded that
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That is really its as precious as, as a jewel
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Narrator: Now life accelerants
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[sound of train]
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Narrator: Coal turns to steam
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It opens the age of mass transportation
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Frauenfelder: Steam changed everything
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Before we had our own muscles we had animals muscles we had fire
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Now we have this incredible compressive force of steam
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Narrator: Steam drives the railroad
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Mankind conquers time and space
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And the rail road drives one of the greatest engineering challenges we have ever faced
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[loud explosion]
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1852, West Virginia
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Mankind pushes through mountains
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A railroad linking Baltimore the Mid West
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across 380 miles of mountainous terrain
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America transformed
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Coal, steam and a new sensation
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speed
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We have always strived to go further faster.
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5,000 years ago the horse triples the distance we can cover in a day
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By train we travel 10 times farther
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Meigs: Imagine your first trip on a steam railroad
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You climb this character behind this belching vast smoking machine
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Traveling so fast they thought your lungs might explode or your eyes might pop out
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Brands: The idea of traveling 20 miles an hour, it was mind boggling
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They would comment on how fast they were traveling
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and they weren't at all sure that the human body could sustain this.
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Narrator: The Baltimore Ohio railroad is Americas most ambitious tunneling project
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the man in charge Benjamin Lotrobe Jr.
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The son of a architect he's become one of the leading engineers in the U.S.
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The obstacle he faces the Appalachian mountains.
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A towering wall of slate and limestone between the east coast and the rest of the continent
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Latrobe, will have to tunnel through rock, four thousand feet thick
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McNichol: Even today tunneling is a remarkable engineering feat
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Back in the mid 1800's it was unthinkable
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if you want to get to the other side of that range by rail you had to go through it
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you had to think big you had to be audacious.
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Narrator: The explosive force gun powder
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the muscle from a new kind of pioneer Irish immigrants.
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43 percent of Americans foreign born population
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they flee the potato famine in Ireland
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in search of a new life.
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Here they earn less than a dollar a day but, they are praised as pioneers of civilization.
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A New York newspaper proclaims:
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"There are many new kinds of power working at the fabric of this republic. Steam power,Horse power and Irish power. The last works hardest of all."
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[loud explosion]
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speaker: Who be said of immigrants you rarely see one with one with gray hair.
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A worker was lucky to live long enough to have gray hair.
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Narrator: To speed construction Latrobe divides the men into two teams.
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Digging from opposite ends,racing to meet in the middle.
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300 hundred men each shifting 600 tons of rock.
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Just a few feet of rock separate. Just a final blast of gun powder and the two tunnels will be one.
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[sound of flint being lit]
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But nobody sounds the warning signal.
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A man is killed others badly injured.
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Americas most challenging railroad projects
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cost one workers life for every mile of track.
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Two and half years after construction begins the line opens.
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People can travel further in hours then the previous generation did in a life time.
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Camarillo: Nothing to that time has profound a impact as the railroads.
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It connected hinterland to city. It allowed for the demographic explosion of a population to move in all directions
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were the rail was heading. It created new towns,it created new cities.
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Narrator: Now factories and railroads launched the fastest migration in the story of man kind.
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And give birth to the modern mega city. The key to our future lives.
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In the western world in 50 years the number of city dwellers triples.
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From 50 to more than 150 million
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But, the industrial mega city is chaotic over crowded and filthy
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A perfect breading ground for disease
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Through out history mans kind biggest killer
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In the fourteenth century the plague sweeps through Asia and Europe
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Killing one fifth of all people on the planet
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The city becomes a threat to the survival of man kind
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Oz: Poor sanitation was a number one cause of death in the world
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Humans have always face a loosing battle with bacteria
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And only through our ingenuity and the ability to look for different clues to what allows this bacteria to thrive
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can we ultimately beat them. That has been the battle man kind has waged on bacteria throughout our known existence.
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Narrator: 1854 London
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The largest city in the industrial world
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Population two and a half million
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A third living in slums. Up to eight to a room
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Forty to a house
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Twice as crowded as Mumbai in India today
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Speaker: The entire city of London the most advanced metropolitan area in the world was really a open sewer.
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Narrator: Number forty Broad street
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the first victim
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Sarah Lewis' five month old daughter, dying of cholera
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Vibrio cholera a strain of bacteria that doubles in number every thirteen minutes
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attacking the stomach and intestines
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killing a healthy adult in hours
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In just three days a 127 dead in London
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No one knows whats causing the disease
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and there is no cure
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But one man is determined to stop it, Physician John Snow
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The son of a coal worker he is no stranger to urban poverty.
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A man of science with a deductive powers of a detective he will enter the heart of the outbreak risking his life to find its source
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[knocking on the door]
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(Snow) "Good day ma'am, Dr. John snow"
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Most doctors believe cholera is carried by foul air
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Snow has studied previous outlets
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hes convinced cholera is in the water
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A revolutionary insight that will turn the industrial city from a death trap to the engine of our world
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1854 London the industrial age has turn the city into man kinds enemy
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A killer stalks the streets, cholera
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heading for the epicenter determined to the epidemic physician John Snow
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OZ: Cholera was this plague that would ravish through Russian society that everyone ran from
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He went right into it, he embraced the fear that so many had
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Narrator: For 300 hundred years cholera has been contained in India
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but as people travel farther by train and sea the disease moves with them
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Every Russian city overwhelmed one million dead
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as it spreads west it grows more virulent
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people fear its the new black death
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Poland,Germany 19 thousand dead in Paris alone
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150,000 across America
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In less than half a square mile of London six hundred dead in just two weeks
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The first victim Sarah Lewis' baby daughter now her husband
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Racked by stomach cramps desperate thirst vomiting,diarrhea
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McNichol: Cholera brings on death like dehydration its one of the most brutal deaths you can imagine
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you loose your ability to think you loose your ability to function its a painful miserable death.
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Narrator: Snow searches for a pattern of behavior in its victims
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OZ: What he did was to look at information analyze the data that he had in front of him and than make a miraculous discovery that change the course of human history
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(Snow) "Is anybody sick here"
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Narrator: At a near by factory Eley's munition's
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18 workers dead
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Snow plots his findings on a map
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a map of the dead 578 in one small neighborhood
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He list the water pumps they use
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to see if there is a pattern
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(Snow) "I found that nearly all the deaths had taken place within a short distance to the broad street pump."
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Narrator: 2,800 people live within 100 yards of the broad street pump
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Most drink its water
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The authorities refuse to shut it down
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Than a new victim who doesn't fit the pattern
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She's from north London no where near the broad street pump
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Could his hypothesis be wrong?
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But he recognizes her name, Susanna Eley
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The same name as the factory where 18 men died
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Snow: "I am sorry to disturb you, a Suzanna Eley do, you know her"
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(Eley) "She, she was my mom"
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Narrator: Eley's Mother moved from the area a few years ago
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Snow: " Could you tell me Mr. Eley did she drink the water from the broad street pump?"
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Narrator: But, she preferred the water from central London
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So, her son sent a daily supply from the broad street pump
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Snow: "Mr. Eley I am sorry to tell you this but I think that water is poison, I think the water carries the Cholera."
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Narrator: It's the proof Snow's been searching for
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that the authorities can't ignore
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The broad street pump is the killer
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Just 3 feet from a open sewer
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Through cracks and crevices deadly sewerage leaks into the water supply
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(Snow) "Please don't this water is dangerous."
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Narrator: When the authorities remove the handle from the pump
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the outbreak stops
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John Snow's method of mapping the spread of disease is still used today
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OZ: It was a very clear scientific approach to taking information connecting
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the dots and making sense of what was happening
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All the information was out there but until John Snow
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we hadn't put the pieces together yet
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Narrator: But the stench of open sewers makes life in London unbearable
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They call it the great stink
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The British Parliament takes action
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In a age of industry engineering is the key to cities in the future
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The London sewer system, 1,300 miles of tunnels beneath the city
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260 million specially fired bricks
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In the next forty years new sewer systems in Europe's cities
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will help reduce deaths from water born diseases by a quarter
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Speaker: Sewage systems really are the foundation of any major city today
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And with out them we wouldn't be able to exist
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there would be disease there would be death
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Sewer systems allowed us to develop into multimillion person cities
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Narrator: Engineering Innovation and new resources
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The Industrial age makes Britain the richest nation on earth
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A small Island nation of 17 million people
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Projects it's power across the planet
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Triggering a global struggle between the old order and the new
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The Industrial age turns Britain into a world power
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It produces half of the worlds coal four fifths of the cotton goods
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London's banks hold more money than all other
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financial centers of the world combined
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Britain dominates global trade
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it becomes a empire
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Powerful enough to challenge a nation 40 times it size
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A nation that shunned the advances of the Industrial age
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China, population 300 million a third of the people on earth
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A ancient culture the worlds largest economy
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Yet closed to outsiders for centuries
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Those barriers will soon be brought down by a flower
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December 12,1838
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Panton southern China
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A dead man walking
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sentenced to die by strangulation
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British merchants look on
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What they do next will help trigger a war
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and bring a seismic shift in the balance of power
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from east to west
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A war fought over the most lucrative commodity on the planet
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Opium
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Extracted from the poppy seed pod
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it activates a natural substance in the brain
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Dopamine that controls feelings of pleasure and reward
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Generating a sense of euphoria
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and a physical addiction
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Ho Lao Chin, runs a lucrative opium den
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He gets the drug from the British
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They grow it in India
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For the British traders it's like printing money
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For the Chinese it's devastating
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Dolin: This one drug opium, has such a powerful impact on people's minds
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that it became the single largest commodity traded world wide
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in the early 19th century
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Narrator: 12 million Chinese are addicted 15 times more
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than the number of heroin addicts in the U.S. today
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Draining China's silver reserves and tearing the country apart
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Hsu: The addiction to opium was so wide spread
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than we have about 30 percent of court officials addicted
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It really was a disease that will cripple a great empire
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Narrator: The emperor's drug czar writes to Britain's Queen Victoria
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[Emperor] "By what right do they use this poisonous drug to injure
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the Chinese people, incoveting profit they have no regard for
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harming others, where is your conscience!"
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Narrator: The Emperor bands the drug, despite using it himself
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The government raid shut down opium dens across the country
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Over 2,000 Chinese dealers imprisoned or executed
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Narrator: Ho Lao Chin, sentenced to death
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The Emperor is sending a message to China's British supply
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James Ennis
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Tough, volatile, drug trafficker
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Determined to save a prize customer
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[Yelling]
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[Ennis] "Suddenly they began to beat about the head
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of executioner's and any china men within reach"
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Narrator: The brawl ends in a stand off
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the battle lines are drawn
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The British refuse to give up their most profitable trade
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Speaker: It supplied them with as much as one sixth
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of all revenue's coming into the British treasury
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So the opium trade was incredibly important to the British
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Narrator: Within a year British war ships from barred China's coast line
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China has 26 times the man power of Britain
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But, Britain the world's leading Industrial nation has ten times the fire power
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[Loud explosions]
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Narrator: The old order gives way to the new
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For the next four decades Britain's opium sales
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to China reach 10 million pounds a year
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Over 1 Billion dollars today
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[Gun shooting]
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Narrator: Industry and Commerce make Britain a super power
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Soon the largest empire in the story of man kind
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From South Africa to Australia, Hong Kong to Canada
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A global empire on which the sun never set's
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Across the Atlantic another conflict between past and future
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[Gun shooting]
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America, a nation divided
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The Industrial north
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verses the agrarian south
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States grown rich from farming
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but a economy based on a labor of 4 million slaves
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Wunderlich: In America were now going to see a clash between North and
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south between an Industrialized non slave portion of country
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and a portion of the country that supports an agrarian
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slave economy and those two things stood in the way of the free thinking
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which is what we were based on
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Brands: If you think of it as a marriage the marriage
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had fallen apart the difference's had become irreconcilable
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Narrator: The South succeeds
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American's new President Abraham Lincoln
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will do anything to keep the nation united
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The power of Industry will be the key to a new age of warfare
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Across the globe mankind faces a struggle
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between industrial might in a older world
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Launching a new age of warfare
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America is divided
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The North fighting to preserve the union
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The South to break away
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to preserve its economy based on slave labor
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Machowicz: Once these two ideas clash
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Hell is on earth
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Narrator: July 1863, Gettysburg Pennsylvania
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After two years of civil war the confederate army invades the north
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At blockers knoll they have union forces on the run
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But private Rubin Ruke stands his ground
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22 years old, idealist , patriot
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He writes in his diary...
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"Bullets were whistling about like hail
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A man behind be was shot,at that same moment
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the man on my left was killed he, fell with half his lent ahead of him
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the thought occurred that I might be next."
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Narrator: This will be the bloodiest battle ever fought in U.S. soil
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Industry in the north gives union troops a edge
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the latest military technology the .52 caliber sharps carbine
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90,000 of them produced in factories in the north
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they fire 13 rounds per minute
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four times faster than rubber muskets
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Ruke's riffle has five times the kill range of older models
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made deadlier by what's inside
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An arrow dynamic lead bullet
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the mini ball
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four hundred million of them supplied by northern factories
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day one, rebel troops push through union lines
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towards the town of Gettysburg
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by dusk 9,000 soldiers dead or wounded
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Machowicz: It's the first time you get to truly see industrialized warfare
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up close and personal
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the body counts are ridiculous the level of devastation is staggering
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Wunderlich: The stench must of been incredible
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the very disagreeable odors of blood
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the screams of the horses going down
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the screams of the men who were falling
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physically it's almost unthinkable of what kept them going
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Narrator: with a bullet in his leg Ruke is caught in the cross fire
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[people trying to tell others what to do]
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[shooting]
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[sounds of flies buzzing around bodies]
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In this war 600,000 will loose there lives
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"There must of been 10 or 12 amputations in this room
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the doctor's had their sleeves rolled up
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and were covered in blood
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Narrator: But the carnage brings medical progress
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field hospitals on the front line
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professional doctor's
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anesthetic's mainly chloroform are pioneered
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used in 95 percent of all surgical operations
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through the war
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The introduction in female nurses
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greatly improves hygiene and patient care
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survival rates sky rocket by 60 percent
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Ruke will survive his wounds
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and return to his life as a farmer
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Union troops are forced back
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but the North superior infrastruture
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will turn the battle in their favor
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modern communication's
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linking headquarters to the battle field
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more factories, producing better weapons
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and more railroads bringing
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reinforcement's weapons and supplies
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to troops in battle
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Wunderlich: During the civil war were going
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to see the union turning out train
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after train, after train
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being able to produce incredibly
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complicated weapons maintain them
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deliver them at high speed
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using industrial methodology's
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all along the way it's world changing
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Narrator: 15 thousand tons of supplies
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arrive at Gettysburg by train in just one day
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The confederate advance falters
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the battle turns
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the north's industrial might secures them ultimate victory
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Four months later
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Abraham Lincoln consecrates the battle field
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as a cemetery with the Gettysburg address
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[Lincoln] "Four score and seven years ago
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our fathers brought fourth on
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this continent a new nation concieved
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in liberty and dedicated to the
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proposition that all men are
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created equal."
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Narrator: America four million slaves
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gain their freedom
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the union wins the civil war
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the nation, united once more
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[Lincoln] "We hear highly resolve that these dead shall
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not have died in vein, that this nation
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under God shall have a new birth of freedom
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and that government of the people
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by the people, for the people
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shall not perish from the earth."
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Narrator: In three generations mankind has
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won new freedoms and harnessed
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new powers, now the spread of industry
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will transform our world
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and excelerate the pace of life
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creating new dangers, by pushing us
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to greater heights
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