Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam

• E1

  The Early Pioneers

  A visit to Cornwall illuminates the early history of the steam engine in Britain, which was developed to pump water from the tin mines.

  2003-07-15 · 30m
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• E2

  The Transport Revolution

  How the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.

  2003-07-22 · 30m
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• E3

  Driving the Wheels of Industry

  The Lancastrian steeplejack’s continuing history of steam power charts the role of steam in Britain’s 18th- and 19th-century industrial expansion, and the use of huge stationary steam engines in mills, collieries and steel works until well into the 20th century.

  2003-07-29 · 30m
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• E4

  Steam down the Road

  The Lancastrian steeplejack’s continuing history of steam power looks at experiments in the use of steam for road transport that took place a full century before the invention of the car.

  2003-08-05 · 30m
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• E5

  Steam on the Water

  A look at how steam power revolutionised shipping, from the earliest paddle steamers with screw propellers to more modern vessels like the Royal Yacht Britannia.

  2003-08-12 · 30m
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• E6

  Steam and the Modern Age

  The Lancastrian steeplejack’s history of steam power concludes with a look at today’s powerful steam turbines that generate electricity and the preservation of our steam heritage in museums.

  2003-08-19 · 30m
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Fred Dibnah

Self - Presenter