Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam
Season 1
20036 episodes
Episodes
- E1
The Early Pioneers
7.02003-07-15 · 30m
A visit to Cornwall illuminates the early history of the steam engine in Britain, which was developed to pump water from the tin mines.
- E2
The Transport Revolution
7.02003-07-22 · 30m
How the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.
- E3
Driving the Wheels of Industry
6.02003-07-29 · 30m
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.
- E4
Steam down the Road
6.02003-08-05 · 30m
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.
- E5
Steam on the Water
6.02003-08-12 · 30m
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.
- E6
Steam and the Modern Age
6.02003-08-19 · 30m
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.