Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam
Fred Dibnah traces the development of steam power from the earliest experiments in the ancient world to the modern nuclear power station.
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- Ep 1
1.The Early Pioneers
7.015-07-200330mA visit to Cornwall illuminates the early history of the steam engine in Britain, which was developed to pump water from the tin mines.
- Ep 2
2.The Transport Revolution
7.022-07-200330mHow the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.
- Ep 3
3.Driving the Wheels of Industry
6.029-07-200330mThe 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 st...
- Ep 4
4.Steam down the Road
6.005-08-200330mThe 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 t...
- Ep 5
5.Steam on the Water
6.012-08-200330mA look at how steam power revolutionised shipping, from the earliest paddle steamers with screw propellers to more modern vessels like the Royal Yacht Britannia.
- Ep 6
6.Steam and the Modern Age
6.019-08-200330mThe 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 i...
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