Smoke and Steel S01E01 - A Leisure Time Game Changer

In Saltburn, England is a cliff lift that offered the public a ride like they'd never experienced before. Atop a mountain in California, stands an astronomical observatory where ambition combined with new technology to fundamentally alter human understanding of the universe. And in Germany, lies a mining hoist that used a new invention called wire rope - this material would soon spread far and wide and be utilised in everything from bridges to ski lifts.