Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam - Season 1
1 - The Early Pioneers
Air Date: July 15, 2003
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 - The Transport Revolution
Air Date: July 22, 2003
How the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.
3 - Driving the Wheels of Industry
Air Date: July 29, 2003
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 - Steam down the Road
Air Date: August 5, 2003
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.
5 - Steam on the Water
Air Date: August 12, 2003
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.
6 - Steam and the Modern Age
Air Date: August 19, 2003
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.