Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam

Season 1

2003 · 6 episodes · 3h 0m in all · 6.3/10

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Early Pioneers

   15 Jul 2003 · 30 min · 7.0/10

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

2. 2

   2. The Transport Revolution

   22 Jul 2003 · 30 min · 7.0/10

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

3. 3

   3. Driving the Wheels of Industry

   29 Jul 2003 · 30 min · 6.0/10

   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.

4. 4

   4. Steam down the Road

   5 Aug 2003 · 30 min · 6.0/10

   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.

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   5. Steam on the Water

   12 Aug 2003 · 30 min · 6.0/10

   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.

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   6. Steam and the Modern Age

   19 Aug 2003 · 30 min · 6.0/10

   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.