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Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam

Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam

2003 - 2003

The Early Pioneers

15th July 2003
Episode 1
A visit to Cornwall illuminates the early history of the steam engine in Britain, which was developed to pump water from the tin mines.

The Transport Revolution

22nd July 2003
Episode 2
How the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.

Driving the Wheels of Industry

29th July 2003
Episode 3
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.

Steam down the Road

5th August 2003
Episode 4
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.

Steam on the Water

12th August 2003
Episode 5
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.

Steam and the Modern Age

19th August 2003
Episode 6
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.
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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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