Fractal History

I'm watching Great British Railway Journeys, and the two things I've taken away from it so far are that Britain is (a) very, very green - in the literal sense - and (b) tiny.  The first episode covers a journey that is only a little longer than my commute for my day job.

Midway, the presenter stops in Rainhill, site of the famous 1829 Rainhill Trials.  What caused me to do a double-take, though, is that they illustrated this 182-year-old event with an 85-year-old reconstruction - a 1926 film called The Rainhill Trials.

Which movie I cannot find any mention of in Google here in 2011.  But give it a minute and it will be there.

Oh, a third take-away point: British engineers of the 19th and indeed 18th centuries were insane.  Need to move coal from your mines to Manchester?  No problem.  Build a canal.  Underground.

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